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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: "Mr.Cisse DIOUF" <cissediouf4@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:54:33 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal

Dear,
I am sorry if you find my mode of contacting you in any way embarrasing or offensive, however I present to you this business proposal. I want to confirm that this is a serious business proposition that will benefit both of us as long as we are sincere to each other. It is a personal and legal transcation. I am interested in investing into any good business you can recommend in your country you can take care of as my partner. Hence my contacting you. I am Mr. Cisse DIOUF, the chief executive officer of Credit Mutuel in Dakar-Senegal.We undertake asset management,account trusteeship, fiduciary and financial advisory services.Having said the above, I will like to inform you that your role shall be very crucial to the success of this anticipated transaction considering its nature.Therefore, I must inform you that the subject of this transaction is not directly mine. It is a fund that belongs to a deceased customer to my firm which I want to conver!
t legally and we share it as will be agreed upon and have mine invested under your care for personal reasons. The deceased is one of Mr.Charles Taylor - Former Liberian President's Presidential aides. They used our services as their fiduciary in depositing funds and transferring diamonds to safe havens while they were in power. There is this asset valued at $21,000,000.00 which the deceased deposited as usual through us in a wahakila system in the Cayman Islands for safe keeping and we were supposed to process it and forward the documents to him later. Unfortunately, this customer could not wait to pick up these documents as he was asked to come back home because of the emergency regarding his boss moving on exile to Nigeria and he left for Liberia to come back in a week's time to pick the papers. And he never did and his boss went into exile. I have been waiting since then without hearing from him or receiving any representation regarding this. Last!
christmas I was in Liberia and ran into one of his colleagues he once
introduced to me and he informed me that he was killed before Taylor left office to exile and I asked when and how?. He confirmed it happened when he was returning from a secret mission from a neighbouring country and he ran into rebels and was killed. This tallied exactly with the time he left Senegal for home.With this information it became obvious to me that this could be the reason we never heard from him again and this fund is here. I have since secured this fund away from the reach and knowledge of any other person in my firm and kept it private to myself as I anticipate interest. I have equally made arrangements to legally convert the money and will be happy to implement the arrangement with your co-operation once we reach agreement. To do this I will have to secure legal documents to your favour and guide you from here after we might have signed a binding agreement to enable us pull this deal through and transfer the funds to your custody and account f!
or sharing and investement.I am confiding in you with the truth about the source of this money hoping that you will not betray me after all it should be seen as our share of the numerous executive loots in Africa. So keep it private. Finally, our timing of concluding this will depend on how fast we can reach agreement.Thank you as I look forward to your urgent reply.Do not hesitate to confront me with any questions or concerns you may have over this. Regards,
.Mr.Cisse DIOUF.


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