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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "kevin williams" <kevinwi6@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:39:55 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Kelvin Williams, the son Of  Roger Williams a cocoa marchant in Ivory Coast capital of Abdjan. My father was shot dead on March 19th 2004, on his way to office, My mother Julian, also was killed while having lunch with my fathers Friends the following Day. Immediately, it occurred to me that the whole family Life is in danger.
Obviously I stumbling escape out of the country to Accra, Ghana were I am now taking a refuge. I am making this contact to you requesting for an urgent Assistant for the remittance of USD$2,000,000.00(two million United States dollars only} which Was carefully deposited by my father as a family treasure in a security company here in Accra Ghana.

The fund was packaged very well as diplomatic bagage and deposited with the security company by my father as a gift items to his foreign partner abroad some years ago when he made so much gain in cocoa production.However, the content of the boxe was not properly declared as money. I am therefore, requesting you to help me by contacting the security company here in Accra as my fathers foreign partner,to help me realize this life time opporturnity; i dont want the security company to know the content of the trunk box if not they will kill me,Please understand my situation it can only take us a day or three to finish the whole transaction,

I am waiting for your urgent response(
kevinjoy1@yahoo.com)

With Kind Regards,

Kelvin Williams


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