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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: "mrs.henrietta" (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:11:40 +0200
Subject: PL I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE INTO THIS TRANSACTION

Dear Partner,
Firstly, let me start by introducing myself as MRS. HENDRIETTA IPELENG BOGOPANE-ZULU, I am hearing impaired, Widow, a mother of three children and the Deputy Minister of Public Works from 11th May 2009 under the auspices of the new President of South Africa Mr. JACOB ZUMA. I got your contact curtsey our foreign information exchange in Pretoria on a personal request in search of a reliable and trustworthy foreign individual, though we have not met before. After due deliberation with my children, I decided to contact you for your assistance to stand as a beneficiary to the sum of US$30.5M (Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Kindly view my profile on the Government website http://www.info.gov.za/aboutgovt/contacts/depmin/publicworks.htm
In 1999, I became the Chairperson of Parliamentary Joint Monitoring Committee, a lot of government contracts were awarded to my late husband with my influence, this actually paved way to our success, my late husband died while he was on an official trip to Trinidad and Tobago in 2004.
After his death, I discovered that he had some funds in a United State Dollar account which amounted to the sum of US$30.5M with a security and finance institution here in South Africa, of which I will divulge information to you when I get your full consent and support to go for a change of beneficiary and subsequent transfer of the funds into your comfortable and conducive bank account of your choice. This fund emanated as a result of an over-invoiced contract which he executed with the Government of South Africa. Though I assisted him in getting these contracts, I never knew it was being over-invoiced by him. I am afraid that the government of South Africa has secretly passed a bill to start investigating several Government contracts awarded from 1994 to date. If they discover this money in his bank account, they will confiscate it and seize his assets here in South Africa and this will definitely and simultaneously affect my political career and possible detention of me an
d my entire family.
I want your assistance in opening a personal account in my bank, with the help of my financial advise (a banker), so that this fund can be wired into your account directly without any hitch. As soon as the fund gets to your account here, you will immediately move it into another personal bank account of yours, in your country.
I will see to it that the account is not traced from South Africa. As soon as you have confirmed the fund into your account, I will send my eldest son and my Attorney to your country, to meet you and discuss best business investments. For your assistance, I will offer you 20% of the principal sum which amounts to US$6,100,000.00 (Six million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only). However, you have to assure me of your sincerity and readiness to go into mutual agreement with me.
N: B PLEASE, DO NOT CALL MY OFFICE LINE OR RESPOND VIA MY OFFICE E-MAIL, BECAUSE OF THE SENSITIVITY OF THIS TRANSACTION, EXCEPT VIA MY DIRECT MOBILE / E-MAIL ADDRESS STATED ABOVE IN THIS LETTER, FOR SECURITY REASONS.
YOUR PRESENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA WILL BE HIGHLY WELCOME AND APPRECIATED.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation and my regards to your family.
Yours Sincerely
Mrs. Henrietta I .B. Zulu

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