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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: "FROM Mrs MARIAMA AND SON." <mrs_mariama100@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mariama_tarloy2000@walla.com
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 20:01:32 +0200
Subject: PLEASE INDICATE YOUR INTEREST AND ASSIST ME

Thanks for your prompt response,and i do appreciate your Concern so
far.

And how is your family ? hope all is fine. Although i may not know you in person,but i want you to know that it took me and my son a lot of prayers and fasting to single you out from hundreds of firms and individuals that i and my son came across during our searching,so knowing you is not by chance but is God doing.

And moreover something in me tells me that you are with good intentions and how i which you can extend that to me and my son.

Please, be informed that i choose you in this transaction,based on my present statues here in(SENEGAL)as a refugee and moreover before the death of my husband, he told me never to allowed my son to invest in any Africa country due to economic blockage and war every where in Africa,due to this reason, i decided to go into a deep seach for a reliable person with the fear of God who will be able to assist us with is full mind.in this i contacted you for your assistance.

I am 46 years old, the wife of the late Mr Johnson Taylor ( A Diamond Dealer) in Liberia who was killed by rebels in Monrovia, capital city of Liberia during a clash with the Liberian government troops in (August 2004).

As the only wife to my late husband, i was advice to leave the country with my only son for security purpose because those rebels promise to kill all the top government and business men along with there families,our house was destroy by the rebels,but i and my son manage to escape from Liberia with some vital documents of my late husband,which stated that before the death of my husband,he has declaired some items worth the sum of 18;000000(EIGHTEEN MILLION, HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in a trust fianance and security company in (Senegal-Dakar west Africa) and my son name happen to be the next of
kin to this fund.

Although, he told me about the fund before his death and made mentioned that the finance outfit does not know the content of the box.

That was why i have to leave Liberia (MOROVIA) with my son to Senegal-Dakar to where my late husband made the deposit.On getting to Senegal, i and my son have to seek a refuge under (UNHCR) as a refugee. Well, i have gone with my son to see the management of the security
and finance company where my late husband deposited this consignment,but they told me that they can not deal with me or my son directly due to the financial governing law of the country,people under refugee are not allowed to participate personal into
monetary transaction or operate account international or locally.

This was one of the reason also, that made me to
contact you for your assistance in assisting us
in retrieving this fund and also helping us to put this fund in a good lucrative business in your country because i have little or no knowledge about foreign investment pending our coming to join you in your
country.

Please, there is nothing to be worried about, because all the relevant documents that covers this deposit in the security company are with me and will be shown for your perusal based on your response to this mail, I and my son will be willing to compensate you with 20% of the total amount, while 70% should be for any lucrative business that you will establish the fund unto which you are going to be the one to manage, because you are more experienced than myself and you also understand the government policies in your country more than i do please understand that you are going to act as the director only as "FRONT") while 10% for any expenses that may come up during retrieval process, since i and my son do not have access to the money at the moment.

I will like you to tell me little or more about yourself, please you should not be angry, because of this, as you know financial matters of this kind is very sensitive,least for us to know whom we are dealing with.I will like you to take us like your own family and treat us the way you will like someone to treat your family when you are not around. And if you do, i am reassuring you that you will never regret in Assisting us.

Please, your full data is highly needed for easy comunication. moreso, your private telephone number and fax e.t.c.

I will be waiting to hear from you as soon as you received this mail,so that we can discuss on the procedure on how to retrieve the deposited fund from the security company,please you are also free to ask me any question that you want to know about me or about the transaction.

May God bless you and your family as you will bring your full heart and time to assist us. So been contacting me through this my alternate email address for security reason.
Email mariama_tarloy2000@walla.com

Best Regard,
Mrs.Mariama Taylor.




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