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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: james_mario4@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:17:16 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=3A=20james=20=26=20ruth=20Mario?=

From: james & ruth Mario
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
Email: james_mario4@yahoo.com

Dearest One,
REQUEST TO BE OUR GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP US TO COME OVER YOUR COUNTRY:

Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile,permit
us to inform you of our desire of asking you to be a guardian orfoster parent
to us and then help us out in what we are about to tell you.

I'm james Mario (20) my jenior sister ruth (18). We are the children of
Late Mr. & Mrs. John A. Mario. Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant
here in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned
to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business
trip. Our mother died when we where babies.

Before the death of our father on Sept. 2004 in a private hospital here
in Abidjan, he secretly called us by his bed side and told us that he has
the sum of six million two hundred and fifty thousand United State Dollars
USD ($6.250,000) deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks
here in Abidjan. He told us that he used my name (james) as the next of
Kin in depositing the money.
He then strongly advised us not to seek for assistance in the investment
of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for
a foreign partner from a country of our choice (outside our country,Cote
D'Ivoire) that willl assist us in the wise investment of the money.We have
since left the money in the bank with the view of our making use of it for
investment purposes after our education carrier here. But as you may be
already aware by now, our country (Cote D?Ivoire) is presently at political
crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country
and making efforts towards the capture of the commercial center of the country,
Abidjan, where we are now.
For this ugly development in this country, we have now decided to take quick
actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it is
too late to do that. We now want to transfer it out and use it for investment
purpose like real estate management or hotel management. Because of this
we are honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To serve as a guardian to us and then assist us transfer the money into
your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country
to further our education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept
to stand as our guardian or foster parent to us, we need not discuss on
any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and
then assist us invest it. But if you still want a percentage, we are willing
to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance.
Pleas tell us if you feel the percentage we offered is not ok by you.
As soon as we receive your concrete assurance to assist us with our proposal
and also your full contact address/phone number, we will then give the bank
your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your
account as we want to come over to stay with you parmanently. The bank will
then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then
be giving us information on when the transfer will be over. We shall also
send our pictures to you and shall also need yours too.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please we beg you to keep
this highly secret for our safety, as we believe that those that killed
our Daddy are still after us. Please reply us through this yahoo email box
(james_mario4@yahoo.com)

Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
james/ Ruth Mario



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