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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: mrsmaryam2003@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 02:27:36 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=20MRS=2EMARYAM=2E?=

Dearest,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration
since can not be able to see you face to face, at
first.being the wife of late Dr Ken B.TUKUR, from ZULU in
republic of SOUTH AFRICA (S.A) Iam Mrs MARYAM KEN TUKUR and
my husband was a limited liability cocoa and Gold merchant
in South-Africa .

Before his death after his business trip to
Abidjan-Coted'ivoire west -Africa to negotiate on a cocoa
business on 6th of February 2002a week after he came back
from Abidjan,he was assassinated with my first son by
unknown assassins which my son dead instantly but my
husband dead two week after in the hospital , on that
faithful afternoon I didn't know that my husband is going
to leave me after I lost my jovial and intelligent son.


But before he gave up the ghost it was as if he knew hewas
going to die .He KEN TUKUR my lovely husband ( may his soul
rest in perfectpeace ) he disclosed to me that he deposited
the sum of USD$ 10,000,000.00 million dollars with a bank
in Abidjan -Cote d'ivoirethat the money was meant for his
cocoa business he wanted toinvest in Abidjan-Cote d'ivoire.



Though according to my husband he told me to take care of
the money for the future sake of his other children , so he
instructed me to seek for a life time investment abroad .
As a result of this assassination we cannot stay in
South-Africa now .

I have succeeded in locating and confirming the existence
of the fund in Abidjan -Cote d'ivoire and also with
mosthonest and confidentiality. I am soliciting your
assistance to help me on how to transfer this money from
the bank in Abidjan Cote d'ivoire to your bank account
abroad so that we will invest in a lucrative business in
your country . you should understand that this fund is our
only hope . I am waiting anxiously to hear from you so that
we can discuss the modalities of this transaction.


Although I and my remaining Son Kevin Jr. have decided to
give you a 10% interest from the total sumof $10million .
Please kingly contact me on the above email address
immediately for more discussion .

Thank you and God bless You .

Best regards
MRS.Maryam




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