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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: aajames7@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 12:36:40 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andrew=20James=2A?=

Bonjour,

It is my pleasure to send you this proposal, I want you to note
that this is not a mistake in any way rather is very
confidential. Before, I go any further I will like to briefly
introduce myself to you.

I am Andrew James from Cotonou, Republique du Bénin. My country
is a french speaking Country colonized by France. I work with
Lemoine et Compagnie as the Head of Legal Department.

There is an Egyptian National by Name Ahmed Ezzat Mohamed El-Azab
Nasr who made a deposit of Gold with our Security Company worth of
$18,000,000,000 Million Dollar (Eighteen Million Dollar).

Presently, he is in jail as a result of being guilty of Political
Mal-practice here in my Country. He was sponsoring the
politicians and on the process there was a massive murders which
led to his arrest and was accused of the Origin of the murders.

The government Jailed him and ceased most of his discorvered
properties. As such, he made a request from the prison that I
should assist him in looking for a Foreign partner who is honest
and that can claim his deposited properties under our Security
Company urgently so that the Government will not discorver it,
therefore I would want you to also keep this a top secret
regarding its confidentiality. Actually he is never a victim of
the alligation put on him rather it was a set-up by some of the
politicians that are against him.

All the relevant documents relatzed to this deposit are all in my
care.

As soon as you show your intrest, I shall henceforth, get you
informed about how we shall carry out with this proposal, Moreso
you are not required to pay any charges here in Cotonou-Repulique
du Benin before the GOLD will be released to you there in Your
Destination.

Please reply me at: andrew-james@volny.cz

Best Regards,
Andrew James.
EMAIL: andrew-james@volny.cz




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