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:
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "liberia" (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: "Alfred Mensah" <almensah8@gmail.com>
Reply-To: alfradm@strompost.org
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:32:26 +0100
Subject: Greetings


From Mr. Alfred Mensah.

Hello:

Please forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and
may offend your personality for contacting you without your prior consent
and writing through this unofficial channel.

My name is Mr Alfred Mensah The chairman, Contract-Awarding Committee of
the African Union (AU) with its fund headquarters in Accra Ghana. I am a
Ghanaian married with two kids. I got your contact during my search for a
reliable,honest and a trust worthy person to assist me in the transfer of
($12,250,000.00) Twelve Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand United State
Dollars Only .

This fund was a residue of the over invoiced contract bills awarded by us
intentionally for the supply of hard/soft wares, pharmaceuticals/medical
items, light and heavy duty vehicles,apparels and other
administrative/logistics for the peace keeping talks in Sierra-Leone and
Liberia during the Peace Keeping Projects. This deal was deliberately
hatched out and carefully protected with the cooperation and mandate of the
financial director and the secretary of the organization. We arranged and
over invoiced the contract funds supplied by different companies from
different countries during the crisis.It is our consensus to seek the
assistance of a willing foreigner to provide us with the facilities to
transfer this money out of West Africa.

As an officer of the organization, I cannot be directly connected to this
money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this
money into your bank account on our behalf. Could you be kind enough to
render your services in this regard. I will provide to you more elaborate
details of the project when i recieve your affirmative response, and also
you shall be rewarded with 30% of the total sum. I do need to stress that
there are practically no risk involved in this.

Waiting to hear from you if you accept this offer.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Alfred Mensah.
Chairman, Contract-
Awarding Committee.
Email: alfredm@strompost.org

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam