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.

 

 

Fraud email example:

From: "JAIME" <miceal2@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: xavimbi@lmxmail.sk
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:37:31 +0100
Subject: information

(TREAT WITH UTMOST CONFIDENTIALITY)
Sir,

Compliments of the season.

I wish to introduce myself to you. I am Emerie Jaime Savimbi.
I am the son to the late leader of the National Union for The
Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) Jonas Savimbi. My father
was killed during combat action against government forces in
the Central Eastern Province of Moxico, Angola on the 22nd of
feb,2002.I am currently on political assylum in Europe,I will
disclose where I am when I am comfortable of your trust and
reliability and that you can assist me conclude this deal
urgently. I have some money which requires claiming, I will
confirm the amount to you as soon as you indicate your total
willingness to assist me reclaim and secure this money.

Please view this website;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/264094.stm
http://english.pravda.ru/world/2002/02/24/26631.html

This money was realised from Diamond Royalties that was paid to
my late father Jonas Savimbi (UNITA)from Diamond companies
mining these precious stones in the areas he controlled in Angola.
UNITA was in control of some part of Angola for more than a
decade.As a result of the death of my father Jonas Savimbi. The
government of president Santos asked UNITA to lay down their arms
and surrender. But we were reliably informed that president, Santos
will embark on ethnic cleansing on the members of UNITA if we are
captured.

Consequently, I left Angola through the neigbouring country to the
island of Mauritius near the Indian ocean on exile where I was able
to reorganise and flee Africa, I was able to arrange the money in
2 trunk boxes and took it along with me to Mauritius from where I
trans-shipped the money to Europe.The boxes of money were lodged as
Film and Film materials on secret security codes with a security
company for safe keeping in Europe.

Nobody knows of the existence or whereabout of the money Except
myself.I am soliciting your kind assistance and cooperation in
assisting me get the money out of the security company and for
immediate invest of the money for me because my status as a
political refugee has made it impossible for my clearance and
usage of the money.

Being fully aware that without your support and full assistance
this deal cannot be successfully concluded,we can negotiate your
percentage,I wish to assure you that I have all documents relating
to the trans-shipment of the boxes/money and all logistic are in
place for the successful conclusion of this business deal, on
reciept of your positive response I shall forward you more details
on the exact role which is required of you for the succesfull
conclusion of this deal. I look forward to your earliest reply
no matter your decision.

Hope to meet you soon,

Best Regards,

Emerie Jaime Savimbi.


__________________________________________________________________
Tiscali Adsl 2 Mega Free: l'adsl piu' veloce e' gratis!
Naviga libero dai costi fissi con Tiscali Adsl 2 Mega Free, l'adsl Free
piu' veloce in Italia. In piu', se ti abboni entro il 7 gennaio 2005,
navighi gratis fino al 31 marzo. E il costo di adesione e' GRATIS.
http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/



Anti-fraud resources: