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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <drazizehab@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 03:27:19 +0200
Subject: ***SPAM*** With OFX-Connect we can transfer $700 Million.

Sir,
This letter would definitely come to you as a surprise owing to the fact that you and I have never had any prior communication. I am Engr, Aziz Ehab Chairman Owllinkso group oil Company. I write to know if you will be interested in working with me on a deal. I am IT experts who have devised a means of siphoning funds from huge deposits. I am capable of juggling through the bank's database and make transfers by both swift and plastic means (Debit and ATM Cards) without being noticed by any known bank security device.

I have built a network that makes use of the OFX-Connect of i2cbank Electronic Transaction Processing and Personal Financial Management (PFM) equipment/applications. This Network was built around a secure e-commerce transaction SSL Certificates that enables up to 256-bit encryption including Signing Technologies, Identity Verification Developer Solutions and Anti-Phishing Tools to enhance smooth and undetectable transactions. It is risk free, which can never be traced to anybody because it is strictly online transactions, which shall be strictly done using the proper codes, encryption, holograms and embossments.

There is US$987.765,46 Million in one of my debugged account but we can keep each Transaction as low as US$1.5 million and done three times in a week, which gives us a weekly return of US$4,500,000.We can increase the transaction volume/amount as we progress in the deal. We should be able to siphon up to US$49,000,000.00 from this account and without being traced to us because I have been able to decode and burg into it using my software.


Please do indicate your position
through a return mail so that I can update you further. The sooner we commence this deal the better.

Regards.
Engr Aziz Ehab

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