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"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.

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

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr DAVIS FERNANDEZ" <guest@proekt.net.ru>
Reply-To: barristerdavisfernandez@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:22:44 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend

ATTENTION FRIEND,

Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. It may surprise you receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. My name is Barrister/ Dr DAVIS FERNANDEZ Esq. (Spanish Lawyer and Doctor at Law) a personal Attorney to Late Engineer (JOHN HENRY) an expatriate engineer who has worked with the Mining and Smelting Company (Asturiana de Zinc S.A. Spain).

My purpose of contacting you is for you to help me to secure his funds deposited with Spanish Bank before he died, to avoid it being confiscated or declared as unclaimed by the Bank. The fund value is $9.500, 000, 000.00
(Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S dollars), this money was deposited by my late client before he passed away.
He lived in Spain for over a decade prior to his death, on the 20th of August 2008, my client, his wife and their only son were involved in a plane crash. All occupants of the plane unfortunately lost their lives details then I have made several enquiries to his Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but all efforts was unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you and solicit for your assistance to execute the claim of this fund.

As his personal attorney, the bank has issued me a final notice to contact his relative’s or his next of kin or else the money will be declared as unclaimed and it will be diverted to the Government’s Account. So far all my efforts to get hold of someone related to my late client have been unsuccessful. Now, I have decided to look for a person that can assist me claim the money so that I can present him or her to the bank. I am now contacting you and I am actually asking for your consent to present you to the bank as my client’s Next of Kin so that the money can be transferred to your account. All the legal documents to back up this claim as his next of Kin, I will provide them. What I need from you is your full support and trust.

I wish to point out that I want 20% of this money to be given to Charity Organizations, while the remaining 80% is shared equally between us. This transaction is entirely risk free. I will use my position as My client’s personal attorney to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction.If you are interested, please contact me on my personal phone number Tel + 34-602-291-182, Fax: +34-911-210-495.EMAIL:barristerfernandez@mail.com
Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand more on this transaction.
The transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any
Breach of the law. However, if this business proposal offends your moral ethics, please do accept my sincere apology.
If on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanations.

WARM REGARDS
Dr DAVIS FERNANDEZ

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