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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: "jojo" <des_tuc3@partynight.at>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 05:58:03 +0100 (CET)
Subject: WARM REGARDS


Dear Sir,

Kindly forgive my intrution without any proper notification, It is because of the urgent situation. My sources say we can rely on you to help us out but we must keep it all anonymous.

My name is Desmond Tucker and I am the special assistant to president charles taylor, before now I was a member of the cabinet of president charles Taylor during the last years. Due to the outbreak of a fanatical civil war in my country Liberia, the president has been forced to resign for the interest of peace but unfortunately the war is still threatening the society physically and economically. Most of us including Mr Taylor were forced to flee from liberia for our dear lives. (President) Charles Taylor is presently in Nigeria were the Government has graciously offered him political assylum, while I managed to escape to London, but our movements in both countries are completely restricted.

However before we left liberia I made a secret deposits of valueable cash worth $21.5m and other jeweleries into the vaults of a classified International Security company in Monrovia on behalf of president taylor with specific instructions. Our intentions is to freight this money and other valuables out of liberia anonymously by shipping it to a trusted foreigner who can receive the consignment on our behalf and keep the money safe until we can come over. You will be required to invest this funds in viable investments on our behalf since we cannot bring the money back.

I have therefore been mandated to contact you and seek your cooperation to receive this funds on our behalf. for your efforts you will get a percentage of this money based on our agreement. I assure you that there is absolutely no risk to you because nobody knows of the existence of this funds. once we are in agreement all I have to do is send instructions to the Security company to deliver the consignment to you and you can track the progress through them.

If this offer is acceptable to you please contact me immediately on the above email or through my more confidential email address des_tuc@indiatimes.com for further explanation, if you require I will email my telephone number here in London to you so we can discuss further.

Time is very essential in this deal, I am waiting to hear from you.

Regards

Dr Desmond Tucker





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