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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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Fraud email example:

From: soatijani@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:32:45 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20YOUR=20=20FRIEND=20=20STELLA?=

Dear Friend,

I am a female student from University of Benin, cotonon. I am 25 yrs old.
I'd like any person who can be caring, loving and home oriented. I will
love to have a long-term relationship with you and to know more about you.
I would like to build up a solid foundation with you in time coming if you
can be able to help me in this transaction.Well, my father died earlier
two months ago and left I and my junior brother behind. He was a king,
which our town citizens titled him over sixteen years before his death.
I was a princess to him and I am the only person who can take care of his
wealth now because my junior brother is still young and my mother is not
literate enough to know all my father's wealth. He left the sumof USD 5.350,
000.00 M,dollars (five Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars)in
a security company.This money was annually paid into my late fathers account
from Shell petroleum development company(spdc)and chevron oil company operating
in our locality for the compensation of youth and community development
in our jurisdiction.I don't know how and what I will do to invest this money
somewhere in abroad, so that my father's kindred will not take over what
belongs to my father and our family, which they were planning to do without
my present because I am a female as stated by our culture in the town.

Now,i urgently need your humble assistance to move this money from the security
company to your bank account, That is why I felt happy when I saw your contact
because I strongly
believe that by the grace of God, you will help me invest this money wisely.You
will have 20% of the total amount for your help,also you will help me to
invest it in either real estate business or into stockexchange or any business
that might interest you based on your good advise .Meanwhle you will manage
any business we may agree to go into for a priod of five years after then
I will take over the management of the business which you will strongly
have absolute control over. If you can handle this project sincerely and
willing to assist me in lifting this fund, kindly reach me and I will link
you to our family legal representative for further discussion. Please, note
that this transaction is 100% risk free and I hope to commence the transaction
as quick as possible.

Yours sincerely,
Stella Soa Tijani.
alternative email stellasoa@yahoo.com



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