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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: suha1_1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:20:49 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Opoortunity?=

Dear Friend,

I have a profiling amount in an excess of Seventy five million united states
dollars which I seek your partnership in accommodating for me. You will
be rewarded with four percent of the total sum for your partnership. Can
you be my partner on this?

I am Mrs.Suha widow of late President Arafat the president of palestinian
settled in France, where my husband later died of coma. Due to this situation
i decided to change most of my husband's millions of dollars deposited in
Swiss banks and other countries into other forms of money coded for safe
purpose because my late husbands families have made an arrangements with
the Swiss government and other Europeans countries to freeze all my late
husband's treasures deposited in some Europeans countries.

Hence my lawyer and I decided lying low in france to study the situation
till when things gets better. My late husband's chateaux in southern France
was confiscated by the French government and as such I had to change my
identity so that my investment will not be traced and confiscated. I have
deposited the above sum with a finance house for safekeeping.

The funds are security coded to prevent them from knowing the content. What
I want you to do is to indicate your interest that you will assist us by
receiving the money on our behalf. I also want you to assist in investing
this money by buying properties and stock in multi-national companies and
to engage in other safe and non-speculative investments.

The transaction has to be concluded as early as possible. Hope you will
not assume my letter to be one of the letters we read on the Internet. I
am doing this because my conscience tells me to go ahead. If you are interested
kindly reach me back. But I will not want my identity revealed.

Best Regards,

Mrs.Suha Arafat.




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