fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days |
 |
|
|
joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet |
|
|
|
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.
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: "Mrs. Ahmed" <future2783338@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:43:35 +0000
Subject: Kindest Attention,I URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP SIR.
FROM:
Mrs. MONICA AHMED
127 Westonaria Ave, Johannesburg,
South Africa.
e-mail :future2783338@hotmail.com
Attention: President/CEO.
I URGENTLY NEED HELP IN THIS BUSINESS/INVESTMENTS.
Dear Sir,
Greetings of the day, I know you will be surprise to receive this email from
me as you do not know me before now, please consider this message as a
request from a family in dire need of assistance to transfer their funds to
safety.
I am Mrs. MONICA AHMED of Liberia, the wife of Brigadier Martins Ahmed. I
got your contact through the South African Information Exchange (S.A.I.E.)in
my search for a trustworthy and God fearing person that will assist my
family in this project.
My purpose of contacting you is to help me out of my difficult condition in
view of my husband's death in line of duty serving the country. I need your
assistance to help us to transfer some money out of South Africa into your
personal or Company's account. The amount involved is US$19 MILLON NINETHEEN
MILLON UNITED STATES DOLLARS).
My late husband was a soldier in Liberian Army and in charge of arms and
armory. He generated this money during the war in the course of purchasing
arms for Liberian forces from South Africa and Yugoslavia. This money
($19m)is deposited with a private security company at Johannesburg South
Africa in cash and I assure you that nobody knows about this money except my
two sons and me.
All I am asking you is to assist us to transfer this money out of South
Africa for investment purposes. The reason being that I and my two sons are
living in South Africa as political asylum seekers (refugees) after running
from Liberia as a result of the war and the financial laws of South Africa
do not allow Asylum Seekers certain financial rights, hence I shall be very
grateful if you can assist us. For your efforts, my family has agreed to
offer you 25% of the total money for your cooperation while 5% will be set
aside for local and international expenses incurred during the course of
this transaction.
As soon as you get this message, and is able to assist us, please respond
immediately or do try to Contact my son ELVIS AHMED who is in Johannesburg
to finalize the transfer arrangements . contact
email:(elvisahmed@hotmail.com) or by Telephone :+27833386953 .
The assurance I give you is that this transaction is 100% risk free, and
will be handle legally as I do not want anything to happen to this money for
it is our only hope and life. Finally, if you are not interested, I will
like you to reply me to let me find another foreign partner and you should
try to help me always keep the confidentiality of this information about
this transaction.
Your urgent cooperation is anticipated
I remain
Yours truly,
MRS. MONICA AHMED {for the family}
Anti-fraud resources: