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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: "Mr. Peter Kenneth" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <petmailoffice085@onet.pl>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 05:59:13 +0200
Subject: Hello Dear

Dear

I am Mr. Peter Kenneth, Deputy Director in charge of foreign relation with Eco Security and Finance here in Ghana, on 15 March 2012, late Mr. Ron Bramlage's

and his wife visited Ghana for business project on Gold in one of the local town here in Ghana.He was given condition by the town local chiefs, before he

start any gold business in the town he have to establish a foundation to support some local projects that will benefit the local people. Mr. Ron accepted to

establish the foundation as he was advice by the chiefs in the town.


On 20th May 2012 he returned and made a cash deposit of $10 Million United State Dollars with Eco Security and Finance Company for the establishment of the

local projects and the Gold business, after the deposit he travel back with the plan of coming back on July to startup the local projects and the Gold

business. Why wait for him throughout the month of July without know news from him or his wife, I personal start making contact to know why we have not heard

from him, in cause of that I discovered that late Ron Bramlage's died in Plane Crashes in Florida swamp with his entail family wife and kids.


I could not do anything but to keep this to myself waiting for any of his relatives to come for this fund, but for the past 6 years no one has come for it,

and I have been monitoring these funds all this year’s waiting for the right time to claim the funds and the right time is now.

So, my reason to contact you is to work with you in this project to claim this $10 Million United State Dollars by making you’re the beneficiary of late Ron

Bramlage's deposit. You are coming in as a relative / business partner to the deceased. Please do not bother that you are not related to him because I am in

position to affix your name in the Company dater base as the Next of kin to the deceased, and this will be done without anyone question.all I need is your

assistance and co-operation to this reality as I have done my Home-work and fine tune the best way to create you as the beneficiary of the fund.If you will

stand as next of kin to the fund, it will be shared 50%/50%, as this is a TWO-men business deal transaction.


Please you can go through this read about the deceased:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ news/article-2156290/Florida- plane-crash-Tragedy-Kansas- family-dies.html#ixzz1xCH9qYD4

Confirm your details and willingness to work out this with me. Kindly respond promptly so that I can advise you on what next to do.

Yours truly,

Mr. Peter Kenneth.

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