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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: "thambo sandra" <thambosandra@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sthambo@o2.pl
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:13:05 +0000
Subject: FAVOUR FROM YOU

FROM MS SANDRA THAMBO
PLEASE REPLY HERE:sthambo@o2.pl

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is MS SANDRA THAMBO. I am the eldest Daugther of Late MR.GEORGE
THAMBO of Zuma district in ZIMBABWE.

This might be a surprise to you on how I got your contact address.It
was from the ZIMBABWE chambers of commerce and Industry.

Consequent upon the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe by the
supportersof President Mugabe, to claim all the white owned farms to
his party members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to
surrender their farmlands to his party members and his supporters.
My dad was among the rich and well known farmers in Zimbabwe, and due
to the fact that he did not support such an obnoxio retrogressive
policy of MUGABE his farm was invaded by MUGABES thugs and everything in the
farm,including my dad were destro! yed. He died in the process and all
the valuables in the farm were looted and those they couldn't loot,
were destroyed.

However, before his death, he had deposited with a security firm, the
sum of $11.5m USD(ELEVEN Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
dollars} for safe keeping due to the heat that was turned on the
opposition by MUGABE but the security company does not know the content
of the consignment since he registerred it as treasure. It therefore became
imperative that we had to move to South Africa, where he had deposited
the money with a security companyin OVERSEA,which he declared as valuables
and family treasures.

Meanwile, the consignment has been moved by the security company to
their Off-shore Office in OVERSEA.I am therefore constrained to make
this contact in order to seek your help in moving this fund out from the
security firm.My status as an asylum seeker does not permit me to
operate any account in South Africa.

My family would be willing to offer you TWENTY PERCENT (20%) of the
total sum for your assistance and also help us to re-invest the money
in your country in any viable venture until i come over to join with you.

You would personally assure me that you would not sit on this money
when you claim it from the security company in OVERSEA.

I would be glad to hear from you as soon as you receive this message
showing your interest to offer your assistance on this mail
box:sthambo@o2.pl for security reasons as time is of great
essence to rap up this project.

Thanks and God bless you.

Your's Sincerely.

MS SANDRA THAMBO
email box:sthambo@o2.pl


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