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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: "Rossy Brown" <rossybrown1@bigmir.net>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:25:46 +0100
Subject: My Dear,


My Dear,
I am MS ROSSY BROWN, The bill and exchange manager in African Development
Bank, Cotonou, Benin Republic in West Africa.
I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our Bank (Mr Jang Seajoon)
who perished along with his next of kin with Korean Air Line,flight number
801 with the whole passengers on 6th of august 1997 and
for your perusal you can view this site:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list
Since the demise of this our customer, I personally have watched with keen
interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has
come to claim his funds of US$35M (Thirty five million United States
Dollars)
The reason for a foreigner in the business is for the fact that the deceased
man was a foreigner and it is not authorized by the law guiding our Bank for
a citizen of this country to make the claim of the fund.So the request for
you as a foreigner to come into the business is necessary, it will
facilitate the release and transfer of the funds smoothly to your nominated
bank account as the only surviving relation/partner to the deceased.
If you can conveniently assure me of your ability to keep this business very
secret and confidential, you can write back to me giving me your
telephone/fax numbers
Waiting for your urgent response and please kindly delete if you are not
interested.
TELEPHONE: 00229 97 017443 Regards,
Email:brown_rossy2@yahoo.pl
Ms ROSSY BROWN

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