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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: Jennifer Watson <jfwts01@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 21:22:31 +0100
Subject: From Sgt.Jennifer Watson.

Hello Friend,

Am happy meeting you online and i do believe it is God who made
it possible for me to meet with you for friendship and business partnership
with you.I know my message comes to you as a great surprise but i want you
to feel free with me because i have desirable plans with you for future
together.I really wish to have you as my good friend/partner and wishes to
hand over my funds to you for investments on trust. I will be sending to
you my photos and my identity scan copy in my next mail so you will see how
i look like and also know more about me.

It is will be very important if we know each other more for
mutual trust between us so want to use this opportunity to tell you about
myself,I am Sgt.Jennifer Watson USA Army ,single,loves traveling and
swimming, still serving in US army ,my contact address in USA is 56A Van
Ness Avenue Westward San Jose -California -United States of America but i
was serving in USA Victory Base Baghdad but was posted to work as Security
attached with United States of America Embassy Baghdad-Iraq.

I made total sum of Five Million,Five Hundred thousand
usdollars( $5.5 Million US dollars) which I packaged inside a metal box as
family valuable items before i successfully moved it out of Iraq to
Universal Logistics Company for Safe Keeping and now i want I and You to
use the funds for investments, I need a foreigner who is reliable and
trusted for life time partnership so this is reason why i have contacted
you.I will explain more to you on my next mail how i made this funds
through oil business i transacted in Iraq during my service years in Port
of Umm Qasr.

The most important thing is ''' Can We Trust each other?,If yes
....Then am offering you 30% share of the total funds while we use the rest
70% for our investments meanwhile i want all investments to be manage and
control by you on my behalf and i will be coming to meet with you later in
future when i have my holidays, you should indicate your interest on this
investment plans so i will give to you more details on my next mail.

Note that the whole process is very simple and we must keep our
transaction confidential and keep a low profile at all times and i want all
our communications to remain on emails for now.I look forward to your reply
and co-operation.

May God Bless us,
Sgt.Jennifer Watson.

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