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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: eze_mandell1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:39:38 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Attention=20Sir?=


FROM: Mr. Eze Mandell.
Business consultants and Estate Agents.
Cotonou, Republic of Benin

Send reply to: ezemandell25@yahoo.de

Dear Sir,

I hope this mail will not be a big surprise to you, please handle it with
all your sincerity and top most consideration. I am a retired business consultant
and investment adviser in West African sub-region.

One of my clients, Mrs Roseline Ajovi Tomkara who lost her husband Mr. Albert
Tomkara, an ndustrialist and Gold merchant in political crises. She is intersted
in investing multi Million dollars in your country especially on the areas
of hotel and agriculture.

Mrs Tomkara is very sick and would want to do this investment for her only
son. She needs someone who is both capable and reliable with exprience in
internationl business investment to act as her foreign partner/ adviser
in investing this funds. An investment agreement will be drawn to be endorsed
by both parties. Kindly send all your company activities for our immediate
attention.

The total amount to be invested is (US$10.2million dollars) in cash presently
secured by her late husband with a private security company here in Benin.
On receipt of your response via email, I will give you my phone number and
will quickly introduce you to talk directly with Tomkara family.

your telephone and fax is required for easy communication

Do send your response to: ezemandell25@yahoo.de

Sincere regards
Eze.








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