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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: "JOSEPH ROSSMAN." <onmazi@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: bonmazi@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:55:12 +0200
Subject: PROPOSAL FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE

SUITE 120 JUBILEE,
PARKTOWN, JHB
SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL: +27-73-287-9464
FAX: +27-83-467-5964
E-MAIL: bonmazi@hotmail.com

PROPOSAL FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE

DEAR: PRESIDENT/CEO

With due respect, trust and humility, I write you this proposal, which I believe would be of great interest to you. I found your contact while I was doing a private research on the Internet for a reliable and capable foreign partner that would assist my family and me. I am JOSEPH ROSSMAN the eldest son of MR. MICHEAL ROSSMAN of Zimbabwe.

During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the support of our PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE to claim all the white owned farms in our country, all the white farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his party members and his followers due to their selfish political interest.

My father who was one of the richest & best farmers in our country, and also the treasurer of the farmers co-operation did not support his idea and so the party members (ZANUPF) invaded my father farms and burnt everything in the farm, killed my father and made away with a lot of items in the farm.

After the death of my father, I and my family decided to move out of Zimbabwe with the money my father kept in his hidden safe in my mother’s house because our lives were in danger. The amount contained in the safe is US$21.5M (Twenty-One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) and we decided to code the money and move to the Republic of South Africa a neighboring country to Zimbabwe, where I deposited the money in a Security Company for safe keeping as a family treasure.

So I decided to make contacts with a foreign partner whom will assist us to move this money out of South Africa, because we are asylum seekers here in South Africa, and the law of the country does not permit us some civil rights such as owing or operating a bank account due to our status as refugees. So if you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you 30% of the total sum for helping us to move this money out to your country and 10% will be mapped out for expenses both of us may incure during this transaction and 60% will be for me and my family to invest in your country as we have decided to leave South to reside permanently oversea. All I want is for you to furnish me with all your banking details and your personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication. You can contact me on the above Tel /fax numbers.

NOTE: That this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential.

Best regards,

JOSEPH ROSSMAN.
(For The Family).





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