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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: abdulyusuf@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:53:52 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?HELP=20ME?=

From; Abdul Yusuf
The Executive Director
Industrial Company Ltd.
Kabul Iraq.

Dear friend,
I am Abdul Yusuf, The Director of Industrial Company Ltd. Iraq and an Iraq
citizen. I am writing to you based on prevailing information for you, to
solicit your assistance in helping to receive some amount of money in your
country, I made this money through my own sweat, this money is my own personal
money. The reason why I want to send this money out of this country is because
of war between my country Iraq and
the United State of America.

Formally the money was in a citizen bank here in Iraq,But during the war
i managed to move the money from the bank to a security company close to
kuwait border and uptil now things have not normalised and no business as
we are still in problem and cannot leave comfortable again in this country,Then
i decided to move this money out to your country for investment and in searching
for a reliable person in your country a friend of mine here
told me about you that you are reliable and trustworthy, Now i have decided
to send the money into your care in your country for investment, The total
amount is US$5.3 million dollars only.

I have finalized the whole necessary arrangement on how to send this money
out of this country to your country through a Diplomatic means by a courier
service company, if you are interested to do business with me then get back
to me and i will give you futher details and modalities and we discuss terms
of the investment.

Please, don't contact me through fax because we are no more in the factory.
We are still running for our lives, nothing like business in my country
for now,you can only contact me through email. I will call you immediately
I hear from you.

Yours truly,
Abdul Yusuf.




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