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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: "BEN KABILA" <keith0keith@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: bguie@india.com
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:06:51 +0200
Subject: Trusting in Fiath to hear from you

From BEN KABILA
SOWETO SOUTH AFRICA

.
Dear Sir

This may come to you as a surprise and this is to
acknowledge the good report I received about your
personality through the contact I made here and I GOT
YOUR ADDRESS COURTESY OF A COUNTRY WED-SIT FROM THE
INTERNET THOUGH AFTER READING THROUGH YOUR ADVERT AND
YOUR PROFILE, IT INTEREST ME MUCH TO CONTACT YOU FOR
LONG TERM BUSINESS

Before I can go further, I would like to introduce
myself to you. I am Mr. BEN KABILA, the son of MR G
KABILA a cousin to the incumbent President of the
Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) formerly known
as Zaire, Due to the war that was raging in my country
last three years ago. President Laurent Kabala was
using my father to send money out of the country
through diplomatic means with the fear that he may be
overthrown by coup dentate at any time and Was later
assassinate by His bodyguard hired by an opposition
group on The 16th of January 2001

My Father during his third trip, He decided to divert
delivering that amounted of US$20..000.000.00 (Twenty
Million United States Dollars) into one of the know
banks security private volt for safe keeping not
letting them know it content, but declared it as
valuable belonging to his foreign business partner and
he was arrested and was later killed in the jail then
our families belonging was confiscated and our homes
burnt down and this made me and my mother to run for
our dear life in to South Africa we have been living
as Refugee since my cousin son is after my dear
life.

However my father personal attorney inform us of a
WILL in his chamber and why I was going through the
WILL I discover that my father blessed memory
deposited this certain consignment containing money.

My aim of contacting you is to solicit for your
support and assistance as I have been advice by my
attorney to look in for a trustworthy person/company
that can assist me for this fund to be transfer into
your overseas bank account and my involvement of an
attorney in this transaction is to Make sure that all
arrangements of this business are
Legal.

If you are interested in assisting me, you are
required to contact me on the above e-mail
address.bguie@india.com


Best regards,
MR. BEN KABILA



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