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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: "Gunther Moller" <gunmoller00@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: noells@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:40:24 +0000
Subject: GERM/UK/FOR..

From:MR. Gunther Moller,
Waldschmidtstrasse 59 61,
Frankfurt Germany.

Dear Sir,

FOR OUR MUTUAL BENEFITS.

My name is Mr Gunther Moller,I am a vault manager with a security company
here in the United Kingdom. I got your contact from your country’s chamber
of commerce here in the UK. This business if handled with utmost care and
secrecy will be successfully concluded within 14 working days. In January
2003, before the commencement of the war in Iraq, one top Government
official of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussien deposited a
consignment with our company under diplomatic cover and declared it family
valuables.

After the American led coalition war in Iraq that led to the depositor's
death, no one has appeared to ask for the condition of this consignment, one
of my colleagues working on this matter with me personally investigated what
the deposit might be, nursing the fear of Chemical weapon, but
investigations proved the content of the consignment was cash deposit to the
value of US$65,000,000.00. (Sixty Five Million dollars) .Since the actual
owner of this consignment is only known to me and this my colleague, we
decided to look for a foreign partner who can come forward and claim the
consignment now that the owner is dead. What we want to do now is to change
the ownership of the consignment to anybody who is willing to work with us.

We have made necessary arrangements for the change of ownership to be
completed within 5 working days of receipt of the information we will
require from you, if you will be interested to work with us. We will
complete the change of ownership in your name so as to make it easy for you
to come up and claim the consignment, and the proceeds will be shared
between you, I and my other colleague in the office. If this proposal meets
your interest, please get back to me by email for further details on how we
have planed to carry out this operation smoothly.
We wait urgently to hear from you.
Yours Faithfully,
Gunther Moller.


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