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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: ritacham@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 01:17:23 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hi?=

Dear Sir/Madam,
This mail will definitely be coming to you as a surprise, but I must crave
your indulgence to introduce myself to you.
I am Rita cham the dauther of late Chief Benjamin cham one time director
of the ministry of natural recources who died in the civil war in my country
liberia.i and mother and my younger brotrher came to Spain after the death
of my fater and my mother is presently staying at refugee camp here in
Spain.

Before the death of my fater,he deposited the sum of 20million dollars in
a security company here in Spain,initially my mother had wanted to invest
the funds here in Spain but we want a tusted and a sincere foreign partner
to assist us pull the funds out of Spain and invest some for us in whatever
investment you may deem profitable in your country.maybe offshore investmnent,engineering
sector,real estate or the manufacturing sector will be decided by you
because you know the best sector that is profit oriented.


After you have pulled the funds out of Spain ,we will then give you the
go-ahead to hire an attorney to procure for us 'immigrant investors visa'to
enable us come over.be rest assured that this transaction is 100 percent
risk free because the funds were generated from normal commercial activity
and does not belong to the government and not drug-related,although the
liberia
government announced that the sum of 10billion dollars got missing from
its treasury in the last
10 years,my late father was not part of the rebel looting that took place
in liberia.in fact my father was killed because he refused to be part of
the rebel backed government syndicate,it's a sad story.

Please note that the future of my mother and i depends solely on the funds
and as such i implore you to keep confidential all matters as regards this
transaction.we look forward to your swift response via email hoping to see
you soon.
Greetings from my mother.
Sincerely yours.
Rita Cham.




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