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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: musalim_101@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:56:25 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20Musa=20Limson?=

Dear Friend

I write to seek your help in the context below, I am the SON of DR JAME
LIMSON the chairman of Sierra Leonian Diamond Mining Corporation , who was
massacred by president Tijani Kabba force in their struggle to reinstate
him back to power.I decided to trust youn because I am at a crossroad and
have this feeling we could work this out for our mutual benefit.Before the
death of my father he disclosed to me where he deposited some consignment
in a neighboring country in West Africa.And the document regarding this
consignment was handed over to me by my father.He kept these consignments
under an Security Company concealed in a trunk box as diamond in their vault
is $25.5 million (USA).But only declared to the company as diamond and due
to previous transaction of depositing diamonds in the past by my late father
it was accepted without any check up. I carefully search and found the security
Company where the consignment were deposited
for safe Keeping in their security vault in the neighboring Country.

The Security Company has accepted to release the consignment factually to
me if I come with my father's foreign partner.I am seeking your assistance
because my father has declared the record with the company stating that
his foreign partner shall be the authorized person to make claim on this
consignment on my behalf,because of his positioning government on which
no name was given by my father as his foreign
partner.
To this effect, I request to make you the beneficiary of this consignment
in your name as foreign partner to Claim this consignment. For your assistance,
room is Open for ngociations. This is a risk free transaction As my father
deposited this valuable as a personal Belonging.In this situation every
process to completely move This valuable may not exceed (5) working days,
if your co-operation to assist is sort.
I shall be very Grateful to hear from you, all documents concerning this
are intact with me, please kindly e-mail me as Soon as possible .
In view of our plight, I pray that you are trustworthy and kind enough to
respond to this call of (S.O.S) To save our family and I from a hopeless
future.
And please send to me your contact telephone and fax numbers for more information
Reach me via my above contacts.Meanwhile I remain
I look forward to your quick response, May almighty GOD bless you and your
family.

Best Regards
Musa Limson



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