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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: "Ibra Balah" <ibrabalah@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:00:15 +0100
Subject: Treat as urgent Please.From Ibra balah.

Good Day,
You may be surprised to received this letter from me because you do not know me in person , I am Mr Ibra Balah, the first and only son of late Dr Funtai Balah, who was murdered in the on going Sudan Crisis in DARFUR REGION, I decided to contact you. Before the death of my father, he had deposit the sum of US$7,200,000 (Seven million two hundred thousand US DOLLARS), in a private security and Finance company, This amount was meant for the purchase of chemicals and tractors for the development of our new farms in DARFUR AREA ZONE. unatics in the society lot of people have been killed because of this WAR CRISIS,demanded an end to chronic economic marginalization and sought power-sharing within the Arab-ruled Sudanese state.which my father is one of them. You can hook up to CNN or BBC news every day for what is happening in the country, if you are in doubt, INTERNET view for more details http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/darfur/=!
2E it is against this backdrop that my family and I who are currently in Dakar Senegal decided to transfer our fathers money to any foreign account since the Senegal law prohibits refugees (asylum seekers) to operate any type of bank account or to be involved in any huge financial transaction. As the eldest child of my father, I am seeking for a genuine foreign partner who can help us transfer this money in to his or her oversea account. On the other hand, As a Honest person whom I will entrust my future and that of my entire family in his or her hands , I must let you know that this business is completely 100% risk-free. As we cannot accept to venture into any dangerous deal with our fortune, if you therefore accept to assist us, which I know that you will. Please I will like you to contact me through the receipt of this mail urgently. Feel free to ask all questions you deem necessary. For you assistance , we have proposed two options for you.!
1)You may go into partnership with me for the proper profitable inv
estment of the money in your country. 2)If you do not prefer a partnership, I am willing to give you 20% of the sum while the remaining 75% will be my family prior for investment in your country, while the remaining 5% will be used to defray all the expenses that may incur during the process of this transaction. You are therefore required of absolute confidentiality of this matter. God bless you.
Yours truly, Mr Ibra Balah.



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