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: "Mr. Platonadze Nodariy." <platonadzenodariy@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: platonadze_nodariy@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:32:00 +0400
Subject: I'm a financial consultant based in Nawala Sri Lanka.

Attn:

I'm a financial consultant based in Nawala Sri Lanka.l have a client (a widow) she has $8,500,000 eight million five hundred thousand united state American dollars with a private security company for safe-keeping which was deposited by his late husband before his ultimate death.

And she is willing to offer you 20% of the total fund for your assistance and 5% mapped out for any expenses that may come up during this transfer, if you can assist her transfer this fund to your country or any bank of your wish.

She wishes to invest into real estate, housing investments or any other business that will be more profitable as well. She is also more interested to run companies with potentials for rapid growth in a long-term partnership.

My client is interested in placing part of her fund in your company, if your country's laws allow foreign investment. Give your contact address of your living, and fax, and telephone, and mobile numbers for easy communication.

You can contact me for more details via my e-mail address for further information's regarding this transaction as soon as possible. Contact me with my private e-mail address: platonadzenodariy_sri_lanka@indiatimes.com for further information.

Thanks.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Platonadze Nodariy.



Anti-fraud resources: