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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: dr_nando4@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:16:03 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?DR=20NANDO?=

Dear Friend,

I am Dr.Daniel Nando presently i was practising with a private hospital
here in Ivory Coast W/Africa, And you don?t worry because I got your contact
through a chamber of commerce and will like to explain to you about a transaction
which I hope you can assist which will benefit both of us.

I have a patient, a Sierra Leonia woman who was on admission for some weeks
in my hospital for a complicated ill health as the result but her recovery
have been eventful.

As a matter of fact, one night this woman called my attention and began
to tell me her circumstances that she and his only son was refugee here,and
that her late husband a militry officer died in a rebel conflict in his
country,And that the immediate brother to her late husband was threaten
to eliminate the life of her only son because of the matter of certificate
of deposit and she could not bear it and manage to escaped through a neighburig
country with the certificate of deposite of some (1) trunk box deposited
in the security company decleared as family valuable which was traced in
Ivory Coast W/Africa that she has confided in me to reveal this secrect
to me because of the help i have given to her and her son.

That the content of the consigenment was physical cash of $15. million (USD)and
why he did this is because the militry body have once trailed the account
of her late husband, at this stage She have decided to leave this country
because of political crisis and requested me to seek an honest foreigner
who will assist in the transffering the money out for investiment of her
son, i have accepted and requested for a proof and she provid the documents
of the deposit which was clear and legitimate, and was in my poccession
the documents.Though i have given her the medical & humanitarian help as
i could based on the ethics of my proffesion. Therefore, i have consider
to assist her and to contact a genuine person who can also consider to help
as well showing
that an international brotherhood is reality towards this madam and her
son. She also promise to intimate us with 10% of the total amount of the
money and i hope if you can understand the request and the assistance which
i hope you can respond positivey.

In the meantime,i hope to hearing from you soon.please call me on this number
0022507053499 so that we can talk.

Your sincerely,

Dr.Daniel Nando (mb:bs)fac medAttachments

NB;ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS {dr_nando3@zipmail.com.br}




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