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: "kojo kwame" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kojokwame2k2@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 10:15:54 -0000
Subject: PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME RECEIVE MY MONEY VIA WESTERN UNION

Hello
How are you and your family hope fine. l am Kojo Kwame from Congo Republic now in TOGO LOME I have (820,000.00) Eight hundred and twenty thousand DOLLARS in my position that i want to send to you in your country so that you can use the money to invest for me in any profitable business in your country. under your care, because I have lost some of my money through all those diplomat, so now i am sending you this money from Togo Lome western union with a powerful barrister that is helping all beneficiary to transfer their funds now from Togo Lome i want you now to send to me a receivers name so that we can start sending you the funds gradually .you can send five or eight names to my email now and I am waiting your response

Anti-fraud resources: