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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: Yul Zaidi <barr.joziadams@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:11:59 -0700
Subject: Opportunity in my office

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Barrister Yul Zaidi, I am a citizen of Republic of Benin in
West African region, I am writing for this opportunity in my office
that will be of immense benefit to both of us, I am the personal
attorney to late Mr.Daniel Dawson, A Belgium national who was a senior
staff of Reynolds Construction Company (RCC) here in my Country Benin.
he died on November 17 2009 in auto crash along Port - Novo high
Express way.

My client has a bank account with BANK in USA valued at $12.7M USD
(Twelve Million seven hundred thousand united states dollars) but he
had no WILL and I have made several inquiries to locate any of my
clients extended relatives in Belgium since after his death, But all
my efforts to locate any of his relatives proved unsuccessful.

Recently, the bank asked me to provide a next of kin who will claim
his funds or have his account confiscated and divert the funds into
federal Reserve bank, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for years now, I am seeking your consent to present you as
the next of kin, so that the bank can release the money to you for the
benefit of both of us, This money has been dormant for years in the
Bank without claim, and I don't want the money to go into the Federal
Reserve Bank of America as unclaimed funds.

Please I would like you to keep this as top secret between me and you
alone, I have all the necessary information and legal documents needed
to back up the claim, All I require from you is your honest
co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this
will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law.

I want you to contact me back through my private e-mail address (
yz26252@gmail.com ) for more details.

Yours Faithfully,
Barr.Yul Zaidi

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