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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: Grace Kamo <kamograce55@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:20:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PARTNERSHIP INVESTMENT PROPOSAL




Dearest:

I am Mrs. Grace kamo 55years old the wife of the former chairman of the Sierra-Leone Gold and Diamond mining company Prince Kamo. He was at a time, a cabinet minister of mines and power, alongside other important personality profile which we cannot talk about now. My eldest son, Mr. Victor Kamo who by African tradition in conjunction with the documented legal obligations, is the next of kin and beneficiary to his late father's and my husband's estate and properties. My husband of blessed memory died in the Sierra-Leone age-long bedeviled war and crisis. He was assassinated by the Foday Sankoh led rebels of the Revolutionary United Front, (RUF) and the Kamajors. Shortly before his death, he deposited $49.8M (USD) in a private! Security Company in Europe for safe-keeping. Although, the security company is aware of the content as they were deposited as privilege consignment under the pretext of family treasure and African
artwork. In addition to the fact that the fund was lodged their in Europe in a security firm, I have also decided to look forward to travel to Europe with my children and have a resident and seek political asylum if all things and transaction goes well, due to European political stability, and for security reasons. However I got your contact at the end of year party/seminar organized by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), here in Accra true international World Wide Web center for commerce site. Right now, we are under political asylum here-in Ghana, we are hereby , looking for an honest person as overseas partner who can assist to retrieve the fund from the security company and facilitate it to his/her home country as my son will later join him/her for investment hence, we are contacting you today for assistance. It is our desire to go into property investment or any other profitable business area of your choice and work as partners.
For your assistance we shall compensate you with 10% commission 5% for any expenses been Incurred in the transaction before we go into partnership investment. Please kindly confirm your interest and willingness of this partnership investment proposal upon receipt of this message through e-mail address stated above. This is a collective idea of me and my son my alternative email is gracekamo@gobot.com

Thank you and God blessed
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Grace Kamo
Victor Kamo {35YEARS}
[MY ELDER SON]



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