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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: estella edwin <estew3@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <estellaedwin777@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:38:13 +0200
Subject: From Mrs Aluwa Cabenca Williams & Son Benjamin.



>From Mrs Aluwa Cabenca Williams & Son Benjamin.
Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire.
West Afrique .

Good Day.

My Name is MRS. ALUWA CABENCA WILLIAMS a citizen of Sierra-Leone. A widow being that I lost my late husband couple of months ago. When my late husband was alive he was dealing with international REAL ESTATE agency until his death. My late husband CHIEF CABENCA B. WILLIAMS left behind a total sum of (US$ 18.500.000 EIGHTEEN MILLION FIVE HOUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS) My late husband package this money in one trunk box and deposited it in the Security Company here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire, and the Content was mentioned as a family valuable. He told me to look for a good foreign partnership and ship the trunk box for foreign investment. He advice me to invest this money on real estate or transport industry business.

Through I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life. Me and my only Son Benjamin have visited the Security Company and approached to to the director and presented to him the entire document my late husband left to us, bears with the name of my son Benjamin as the next of kin and including his death certificate.

I want to follow the instruction of my late husband to invest the money with my only son in your country, I will like to invest part of the money into any of these three investments plan in your Country as bellow. But if there is any other business with good profit, that is better than what I am suggesting, we will be very glad to follow your advice. Please come up with your idea.

1). Real estate
2). Transport industry
3). Hotel

I humbly request you to participate in this transaction and also give me professional directives If you are in interested and willing to assistance us. We will be pleased to offer you 25% of the total sum as compensation for your effort /input for the successful shipment of this Trunk box to your destinations address for the Investment Project.

Thank you for your understanding.
I await your soonest response.
Respectfully yours.
Mrs Aluwa Cabenca Williams & Son BenjaminAbidjan Cote d’Ivoire
_________________________________________________________________
Exprimez-vous : créez la page d'accueil qui vous ressemble avec Live.com.
http://www.live.com/getstarted

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam