joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
 Free trial for 30 days
   jwSpamSpy
Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

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

Fraud email example:

From: Peprah <hillaperh1@naseej.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:42:45 +0300
Subject: PLEASE CAN I TRUST YOU ?



Good day,
 
My name is Mr.Hillary Peprah, My Elder brother Dr. Kwame Peprah,
Ibrahim Adam former Minister of Food and Agriculture, and the former
Director of the Legal Sector, Private and Financial Institutions
Division of the Ministry of Finance, George Sipah Yankey, were
sentence various prison jail terms, by the current ruling government.

My aim of contacting you is to crave your indulgence to assist us in
securing some funds abroad for safe keeping. Here my Elder brother
advised me to look for a foreigner that will be reliable and
trustworthy to assist me to stand as my Elder brother foreign business
partner abroad whom my Elder brother made the deposit on his behalf,
to claim the box of precious items from the security company and ship
it overseas for your safe hand keeping in other to avoid any trace
from the ruling government.

The need to contact you arose from the fact that the present
government is cracking down on the opposition and trying to traceall
the funds that belong to it, if they succeed in tracing this fund to
us, they will seize it and thereby incapacitating our campaign
abilities. We wish to relocate this fund in a foreigner's name to
avoid any trace. All I need from you is an assurance that you can
handle the amount involved (US$6,000,000) comfortably and that I can
also trust you with this arrangement.
 
Be rest assured that there is no risk involved since I have taken care
of everything. I want you to immediately inform me of your willingness
in assisting and co-operating with us, so that I can send you full
details of this transaction and let us make arrangement for a solid
trust to each other and discuss at length on how to transfer this
funds.
 
I am able to give you my name without fear because I got your contact
during my search for a reliable, honest and a trust worthy person to
entrust this project, so it would be appreciated if you can maintain
the confidential nature of this letterand the whole transaction.
 
Please if you are not interested in this business, let me know in
time, so that I will think of next thing to do. Please send your
response through my alternative email addresses below for security
measures:

 PLEASE KINDLY REPLY ME TO MY ALTENATIVE EMAIL ID AT
(hillapeh@yahoo.com.hk)       

                      


Thanks and God bless,

Yours sincerely,

Mr.Hillary Peprah








بريد نسيج http://mail.naseej.com










بريد نسيج http://mail.naseej.com




Anti-fraud resources: