joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
 Free trial for 30 days
   jwSpamSpy
Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Jones Workman <workmaninlaw@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:12:14 +0100
Subject: Re: Greetings of the day

Dear Friend,

I sincerely apologize for intruding into your privacy, especially by
contacting you through this means for a business transaction of this
magnitude, but I had to do it for the security of the information that
I want to pass across to you and I want our communication to be
basically through email for now.

I am Jones Workman, a banker here in United Kingdom. My client "Kurt
Kahle" who died with his family made a fixed deposit of
($10,500,000.00 US Dollars) ten million five hundred thousand dollars
in our bank and from investigations; he did not declare any next of
kin. So I am soliciting for your valuable assistance as a foreigner to
act as the next of kin and get the fund to your bank account because
the funds will be revert to the government of UK if nobody comes to
claim it.

For more information about the crash you can visit this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I assure you 100% risk free in this transaction as the transaction
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law in your country and here in UK once the
fund is transferred to your bank account

Regards,
Jones Workman
Please, kindly reply only if interested and I expect you to keep
absolutely confidential at all times, to avoid eye brows in the course
of transfer.

Anti-fraud resources: