fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days |
 |
|
|
joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet |
|
|
|
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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
Click here to report a problem with this page.
Fraud email example:
From: "Kelly Crawford" <kellycrawford77@msn.com>
Reply-To: kcrawford1111@myway.com
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:29:36 +0000
Subject: urgent
Dear friend ,
Compliments of the day to you. I found information about you and decided to
contact you for an important assistance. I am Kelly Crawford a citizen of
Zimbabwe, but I am contacting from a nearby country where I am now seeking
political asylum. I am the only son of Mac Crawford, a wealthy farmer and
senior politician with the opposition political party in my country,
Movement for Democratic Change [MDC]. Our wicked President murdered my
father. I fled my country because I have become his next target to
eliminate. My father was a fighter for Justice and a moving force in the
MDC, a party wanting to end the several years of brutal dictatorship
government of President Robert Mugabe. You will read more stories about
President Mugabe’s brutal acts by visiting these web sites;
(1) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/jan-june00/zimbabwe_4-21a.html
(2) http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/0418/zimbabwe.html
My father was accused of treason and also assisting the White farmers in
fighting the government. Few weeks after his arrest, he was reported dead.
The government claimed he died of heart attack and his body was never seen
for proper autopsy, they buried him in the government cemetery. My father's
associate Mr. Martin Olds a White farmer from Britain assisted me in
fighting my father's death through the Court and media. The government saw
us as a big treat to them and decided to eliminate us. Mr, Olds was attacked
and murdered in his house, but fortunately, before they came looking for me,
I received the news and I had to flee through the border to near by country
to save my life. My arrival here still remains like a miracle to me.
Here,is my reasons for contacting you, I am having a huge sum of money total
sum of $5,000,000.00 ( five million American dollars) presently lodge in an
excrow account with a Bank in London. My father’s businesses, farms and
banks account were seized by the government before his arrest and murder. He
told me everything concerning the funds while he was still in detention. I
need your assistance in securing the funds there in your country, so that I
can arrange on how to come over to your country to invest with the fund and
get settled. I am willing to offer you 20% of the $5,000,000. ( five million
American Dollars) for your assistance. I am ready to make you the
beneficairy of the fund so that you can transfer the fund to your home
country and after that i will come over to your country for investment and
also to start a new life. I would have done this my self but right now i am
in asylum in a near by country and the government must not know about this
fund.
Please, let me know if you can assist me, so that I can give you more
details on how we shall proceed. As I wait for your urgent response. Please
treat this information as top secret.
Regards,
Kelly Crawford.
please reply to my email address kcrawford1111@myway.com
--
Anti-fraud resources: