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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: kafilat_isiaka@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:23:02 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=20cry=20for=20you=20kind=20assistance=2E?=

Dear Friend ,

PROPOSAL FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE

I know you will be surprised to read this mail from me, but please consider
this letter as a request from a family in dare need of assistance. I am
miss KAFILAT ISIAKA, the only dauther of late JOHN ISIAKA of Zimbabwe, presently
residing in Burkina Faso.

On behalf of my widowed mother Mrs. Blessing ISIAKA,I decided to solicit
for your assistance to move the sum of $10.5million Dollars (Ten million
five hundred thousand United States Dollars)inherited from my late father
to your country for an onward investment under your kind control.

My father was killed during the current war agains farmers in Zimbabw from
the support of our present HEAD OF STATES President ROBERT MUGABE to claim
all the white owned farms to his NPF PARTY MEMBERS. He ordered all the white
farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and followers.

My father was one of the best farmers in our country and because he did
not support Mugabes` ideas, Mugabes supporters invaded my fathers farms
and burnt down every thing in the farm, killed my father and made away with
a lot of items in my fathers farm. Before my fathers death, he had deposited
with one of the security and finance companies in Burkina Faso, Africa the
sum of US$10.5 million (Ten million five hundred thousand United States
Dollars). After the death of my father, we decided to move to the Burkina
Faso where he had deposited the money with Security Company as valuables.

We decided to contact you as a foriegner so that you can assist us to move
this money out of Burkina Faso, because as asylum seekers we are not allowed
to operate any bank account within Burkina Faso.

We have agreed to offer you 35% of total sum for your assistance, 5% has
been mapped out for any expenses that may incurred in the course of thistransaction
and 60%will be for me and my family toinvest in your country.

From the above you will understand that the lives and future of my family
depends solely on this money.as such I will be very happy if you can assist
us, now all I want from you is to furnish me with your personal telephone
and fax numbers for easy communication. Note that this transaction is 100%
risk free and absolutely confidential. Please i want this to be between
you and my famly for security reasons, hope you do understand.

I will be Waiting for your kind and urgent response,Please send your response
to this email address. kafilat_com@yahoo.com

Thanks and God bless.
Best regards,

Miss KAFILAT ISIAKA.
For the family.





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