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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: "Remmy Charles" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <remmy.charles@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:59:55 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE

Good Day ,
It is my pleasure to write you after consideration, since I can not be able to see you face to face at first, but one has to risk trust at time. I am Charles Remmy the only son of late Mr. & Mrs. Richard Remmy, from Benin Republic . (I am 21years of age.) My father was a Gold/Diamond merchant before his untimely death after his business trip to Tunisia .He wanted to invest in Tunisia , but a week after he came back from Tunisia, he got an accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died five days after in a private hospital.
On that faithful afternoon, I didn’t know that my father was going to leave me after I had earlier lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, he called me to his bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of ($12,500,000.00) Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars in a financial Volt. This is the money that realizes from the raw gold/ diamond he just sold before the trip to invest in Tunisia , he deposited the money in a fixed suspense account using my name as the next of kin. He instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner in abroad for investment, now I have succeeded in locating the deposit documents and the bank.
But due to how wicked my uncle is and the economic of our country is not stable, I am now seeking for your assistance for partnership to join me transfer this money out from my country to your secure account abroad so that you will invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country, because I have no experience about investment. I am willing  offer you 20% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicaments. I seek your assistance in the following ways:
(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transferred into and stand as my late father's partner for the transfer.
(2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country after the successful transferring of the fund into your account, so that I can further my education and also see the investment.
(3.) To invest the money in a profitable business since I am only 21yrs of age and do not know much about business.
(4). I want you to promise me that you are not going to betray me after the money gets into your account.
 
I will explain more to you after your response to me.
 
Thanks and God bless you.
Yours Sincerely
Charles Remmy.
CONTACT ME;  remmy.charles@yahoo.com

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