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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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Fraud email example:

From: stick2savimbi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:42:52 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CALL=20FOR=20ASSISTANCE?=

Dear Friend,
I got your contact from an email directory
and decided to
contact you for assistance. I am the daughter of Jonas Savimbi
the rebel
leader in Angola who was short dead on the 25th of
February, 2002, by the
opposing Angolan Army.
.......PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS WEB PAGE FOR IT SAYS
ALL.

Before the death of my father he had deposited the sum of
$16,000,000.00(Sixteen million dollars)a security company
in london.
All the legal documents for the deposit are with me which
my father
gave to me for safe keeping.
After the death of my father I and my family fled to south
Africa
where we are currently living. And we have been
trying to fly out of
Africa but it has been difficult for us to get visas from
Africa. So we
want you to help us make claims of this fund ($16m) in
south africa as my
family beneficiary and transfer the money to your account
or any account of
your choice before I and my family can get visas to fly
down to your
country so that we can share this money.
My family have agreed to give you 20%,

of this Money for your
assistance, and 65% would be for us and the other 15%
would be set aside for any expenses that we may incur
during the course
of this transaction. And part of our share of 87% would be
invested in
your
country in any profitable business proposed by you.
While a large part of our share will also be used to help
charity
organizations. We have never met, but I want to trust you
and please do not
let us down
when this fund finally gets into your account.And I want
you to promise
me that you will not run away with the money or sit on it.
please send to me your direct telephone and your direct
mobil number and your fax number.
Please if you are interested; get to me through my email
address to
enable me feed you with more details and all necessary
documentations;as well making contact with the attorney at law.
Please treat this as confidential.


Best regards.
stick 2 Savimbi





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