joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Fraud email example:

From: s_peterson@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:01:27 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?DIVINE=20DONATION=20BY=20ME=20ASAP=2E?=

KINDLY PLEASE REPLY ME IN MY PRIVATE MAIL BOX WRITTEN BELOW. CITYOFGOD_01@MYWAY.COM
I AWAIT YOUR PROMPT REPLY.

Dearest in christ,
Calvary Greetings in the name of our lord Jesus Christ our saviour.
My name is Mrs.Sandra Peterson,wife to the late Eric Peterson from dublin
Ireland, I am old i have no family no kids,i lost my husband and my only
two kids in a motor accident five years ago it's so sad for me right now,
i am very ill with cancer,doctors says i have short time to live,i have
decided to give my wealth to an honest person that can use it to glorify
the name of the lord. After i received instruction from my God to use this
funds to do GODS work and to give to charity, i prayed to God for direction
and he has been directing me. I told God that i want a ministry, or an honest
person who will spend the fund for things that will glorify His name. This
revelation came after my conversion from to a Born Again christian.
I received Christ and i found out that a sinner has no place in the
kingdom of God. I never had rest of mind, i seeked God for forgiveness and
he Revealed to me that i will only have rest of mind if i serve him with
all my wealth and he will bless me mightily. It was when i received Christ
that i realized the meaning of going to heaven. I need to make heaven, i
don't want to perish in hell fire.As my level of Christianity was increasing,i
understood that the wealth of sinners are acquired for the just. God opened
my eyes to the book of Ecclesiastes 6,verses 1 & 2. Read this scripture
and you will understand that there are people in this world that God gave
the grace to acquire wealth yet God did not give them the grace to enjoy
the wealth.
I happened to fall into the same category now it is thewish of God.
When God revealed to me to use my wealth to do his work, i understood that
God was testing me like He tested Abraham and other men of God. Abraham
needed a child and God asked him to use his only son for sacrifice, Abraham
was faithful. He obeyed and God made him father ofmany nations. After the
death of my late husband and when i was told about my illness i have to
sell all our properties which amounted to about 20 million which i deposited
with a security company in a box for safety purpose if anything happen to
me this funds will be impounded can you use this funds for the kingdoms
work and for charity purpose.
In His Service,
Sandra Peterson.




------------------------------------------
Use o melhor sistema de busca da Internet
Radar UOL - http://www.radaruol.com.br



Anti-fraud resources: