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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: moli lucy <molirr4@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:12:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT


Moli FOOD MANUFACTURING INC.
8200 TOQUIN ROAD, BP 120,
Aniho, togo
Dear,

My name is Moli Nadeem and I am the owner of moli
Food Manufacturing Incorporated. We are small new firm
engaged in export of goods to overseas outside my country. We have won various small exports contract at one time or the other, recently we were (engaged) contracted to supply cocoa, and dried natural rubber to tire manufacturing companies in Peru, US and Europe, which was successfully done. However, in as much as we able to successfully carry out these supplies, we experience difficulty remitting our proceeds from the sale of these products home. This is due to the fact that the fiscal policy in my country is very stringent and not favorable. Small firms like ours are not allowed before six months of operation, to open and operate a domiciliary account in foreign currencies abroad through which we would have been able to remit our proceeds home. To this end we seek a foreign company or individuals who we can nominate as our partners to receive our payments in their business/individual accounts on our behalf and in turn send the money directly to us.Thus, we are willing to p!
ay the
individual or company 5% of the total sum for their assistance. This 5% will not be a loss to us instead we hope to incorporate these costs in our future charges to our prospective customers overseas.
Currently we are not able to bring back home our funds
totaling USD98, 801.00 (ninety eight thousand, eight hundred and one dollars) in Peru, US and Europe from export we just made. We therefore solicit your assistance to help receive these payments through youraccount on our behalf so that we can instruct our customers to remit these monies directly to your account, or alternatively the checks will be mailed to you. We also require that you send us urgently your telephone and fax numbers for proper communication prior to any transaction. We are also hoping to build a long time business relationship with you should you be interested. Once we have built our trust on you, we will continue to straighten the business relationship. We hope you can be of assistance to our company. Please note that we are very much aware of various scams Going on all over, and as such we are assuring you that at no time will you be required to pay or transfer funds that you have not received from our customers to us. We are sincerely a legitimate
entrepreneur seeking for a trustworthy foreign partner.
Please if you can do this for my company, please email
at: molirr@mailbox.hu
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Moli Nadeem





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