joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

• About the 419 (Advance Fee) scam
• "Is that email a scam?" - Check it online here!
  
• Frequently asked Questions (419 FAQ)
• Phone numbers used by 419 scammers
  (+225 +229 +234 +27 +31 +32 +34 +44 other)
• Company names mentioned in 419 spam:
  1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Support our efforts to stop scams!
  
• How to report 419 spam to us
• What can you do when you receive 419 spam
  
  
• Spam archive, Daily index
  

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.

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • info_boaci.redept@africamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: vivian karefa <viviankarefa2@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: vivian200@ugramail.ru
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:00:19 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Mrs Vivian Karefa & Son.Expecting to hear the outcome of your contact with ...


Dearest VICTIM-FULLNAME,

Let me start by thanking you for your kind and urgent response to my mail,l am indeed very happy from you and your interest to help me and my son in handling this matter.l must alos pologise for the inconviniences this my mail or proposalhave caused you as we have never had any previous correspondence before but it is God that directed me to you and l strongly believe by His grace and your total support and co-operations everything will really work out fine.

Please my situation in this strange land is so critical with my son that we will urge you to help us in doing something fast in other to get this money transferred out to your account and help us in arranging for our coming over more especially now that the bank where the fund is has assured us of carrying out the transfer within four(4)bank working days by wire transfer as soon as my late husband's foreign partner indicate His interest to claim the fund and it is based on this fact that l have contacted you to help us out at all cost.


the fund was deposited with the below bank:

INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
BANK OF AFRICA,ABIDJAN-COTE D'IVOIRE.
TEL:0022505309438
FAX:0022522523652
EMAIL: info_boaci.redept@africamail.com
CONTACT PERSON:DR.THOMPSON COULIBALLY(DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN OPERATIONS).

Please since you will be contacting the bank,bear in mind that you are my late husband's foreign business partner/associate.The amount deposited US$8.5 million (Eight Million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars)and my late husband's name is Late General John Karefa,the former Director of military inteligence and special acting General Manager of the Sierra-Leone Diamond mining co-operation(SLDMC).

l will be very glad if you can contact the bank on our behalf to make all necessary verification about the deposited fund and equally inding out on how best the transfer could be carried out successfully.

Thanks and remain blessed while l hope to hear from you on the outcome of your contact with the bank and do not fail to be in touch with me in case of any further inquiry.

Best Regard
Mrs.Vivian Karefa and son.


---------------------------------
Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam