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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: Benjamin Adam <"www."@bell.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Benjamin Adam <benjamin.adam35@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 04:50:19 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hello Dear beloved one

Hello Dear:

My name is Benjamin Adam, the Director of affairs and corporate governance committee in a United Bank For African. I know this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know our selves before. I am actually searching for a reliable person who can assist me in a transaction as next of kin to our late customer, who died in motor accident. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of ($39.7Million US Dollars.In an account that belong to one of our customer (MR JOSEPH HOLMES) an American man who died along with the wife and three children's in a ghastly motor accident on November 2001.Since after his death, the Bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his fund, because we cannot release any money from the account unless someone applies for claims as his next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guide lines.

Unfortunately none of his family member or relatives has applied to claim the fund.Upon this discovery, I have decided to make business a deal with the total amount, because any account that has no valid claim after 18 years will be revert to government treasury, please note that this information is very confidential.

I need your full co-operation because the management is ready to approve the payment to any body who has correct information of the account. the above sum can be claim by anyone who's has the prove of deposit or Ownership documents, as an unclaimed fund on or before the end of this financial quarter of 2017, when nobody come forward to lay claims. The deceased (Late MR JOSEPH HOLMES) was a foreigner, and I have access to his deposit data which you will hold as a weapon to present yourself as the next of kin to Late MR. JOSEPH HOLMES. Moreover, I don't want you to let our Bank to know that I'm the one who sent you on this propose. and I will also send you the Deposit document, which you can present to them as prove.

The mode of sharing after a successful transfer to yours, shall be 70% to me and for the role you will be expected to play in this deal, will offer you 30% of the total sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties in the course of this transaction. Therefore, treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security reasons, considering my official position on Security.

Please, do fill and send the information’s below.

(2). Address: .........
(3). Telephone: .......
(4). Occupation: ......
(5). Age/Sex...
(6). Copy of Identity card.


Hon Benjamin Adam
E-Mail: benjamin.adam35@yahoo.com

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