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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: "Mrs Bennie Khobe" <mrsbenniekhobe@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:46:56 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP

GOODAY SIR

This proposal to you is strictly confidential, with due respect .Sorry at
this perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving this letter from
me, Since we have not known ourselves or met previously. Despite that, I am
constrained to write you this letter because of the urgency of it. I am Mrs.
Bennie Khobe, the wife of late Gen. Maxwell Khobe former ECOMOG [West
African peacekeeping force] commander who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are trapped in obnoxious custom
traditional rites. We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the
hands of my late husbands family, simple because I did not
bear a male child for my late husband By tradition, all that my husband had,
[wealth] belongs to his brothers/family and myself is to be married by his
immediate younger brother. They have taken all that I suffered with my
husband to acquire including treasure, houses and his bank accounts closed
by them. I wanted to escape to the United State of America
[USA} with my children on exile, but again they conspired and stole my
international passport and other traveling documents to further frustrate
me. Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code [KTC} from
SECURITIES COMPANY, that my husband deposited U.S $5.5 Million [FIVE Million
five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars] cash with this
company.
It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact some one, a
foreigner like you to help me receive/secure these funds overseas and to
help invest it on our behalf as well, while we find a way of getting out to
meet with you in your country. These funds are kept on a CODE with the
Securities Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. I have had
several telephone discussions with the Assistant Director of the Securities
Company, Mr. MARTINS PHILPI who has express willingness to help me on
meeting the company&#65533;s demand. This is why I have contacted you to
help save my children and I, receive these funds on our behalf. But, you
would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help me, you would
not divert the funds. My children and I have resolved to give you 20% of the
total sum. This is all my children and I have got to live on. Please, I have
reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not disappoint me. I will
forward you the contact of Mr. MARTINS PHILPI
for you to contact him and ask him the possibility of receiving this fund on
our behalf as the sole beneficiary look forward to your urgent response.
Best Personal Regards.
Mrs. Bennie Khobe.


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