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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: "Jusice Mudchinguri" <justicehasse@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: justicehass@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:30:52 -0700
Subject: Hi

i am 26 years old national of Zimbabwe

I want to open a gift shop in your country and I need you to help me for two things, so that I can be able to open the gift shop there, I will like to give you brief detail of the money I want to use for the business, so that you will understand me better.

Two years ago my father deposited some amount of money with a company in Ghana and the money was deposited with a conditions, the conditions are (1) without my father foreign partner the money will not be release to me, this condition was given by my father because him did not want me to invest in Africa because of the economic and political instabilities in Africa, my father lost money on diamond business in the democratic republic of Congo that is why him did not want me to invest in africa.

(2) The company demanded the source document must be tender on retrieval day of the deposited money, my father told the company the money him deposited with them was derive from a government contract So, please I want you to stand as my father foreign partner, because without the foreign partner of my father the company will not release the money for me, Secondly, I want you to help me to get a document to cover the source of the money from your country because I am not having the money to acquire the document here.

I am financially handicap to me in Ghana, any amount of money you spend will be pay back to you as soon as the money is claim from the company, and for your assistance you will be having 25% share of the gift shop. Please I am begging you to help me, I do not have anybody here to help me, as soon as I have hear from you I will send you the document my father use to deposit the money.

mail me on justicehasse@hotmail.com

Thanks

Justice Hasse


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