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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: evline john <evlinejohn@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:45:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM MRS EVLINE JOHN REQUESTING FOR INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP!!!!


Dearest one,

I know that this letter may or may not come to you as a surprise.

But after much considerations I decided to write you. I am Mrs Evline John, A Siera Leone l am married with four children and a former student of the federal university of Free town sierra Leone. my Husband Dr. Michael John; was the former finance minister of siera Leone. In the cause of the war That hapened in my country.He was accused by Tejan Kabbas present president of sieraLeone of embezzlement and supporting the rebel leaderforay Sankohs group for fighting against his government two weeks later he was assassinated with three of our children by unknown assassins on their way home on the 22nd of April of 2001 before his assassination he disclosed to me about a deposit he
made with a security and finance company abroad for a life time for investment purpose after his death I retrieve in his private safe and took the documents concerning the deposit and made my way to Abidjan with our remaining child to avoid the reoccurrence of what happened to my husband and my three children.Presently I am in Abidjan with my son as a refugee under the help of peace keeping force and I dont intend to go back to my country although the situation has return normal going through the documents I understand that the money was deposited into two different places one here in Abidjan and the other one in Europe. That is each one containing $8,5m in each trunk box. But he
declared it as a vital family belonging to avoid the security officials for not raising eye brows on the money. Now, having succeededing locating the areas where the two trunk boxes were deposited, I am soliciting for your assistance, to act as my partner since I and my child are the only beneficiaries of this deposited funds. So help me to uplift this money in this two different areas to your country where I will invest it in any lucrative business in your country with you acting as my investment broker and partner. I am awaiting anxiously to hear from you as your involvement and modalities of this transaction will be carefully discussed in our next correspondence NB: please threat this as highly confidential
Attention and mutual understandings.
Please response to me through my private email address.
( evlinejohn@yahoo.com)
Thank you for your kind yours faithfully.
Mrs Evline John.




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