joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
 Free trial for 30 days
   jwSpamSpy
Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Fraud email example:

From: "Ho OH" <mrtwright05@accountantemaill.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:01:26 +0000
Subject: Attention Beneficiary Of Consignment.

Name:Tom Wright.
2-4 Pretoria Garden,
Johannesburg./Sa.
Prviate Email:mrtwright05@accountantemail.com



Dear Beneficiary,

Sequel to the secretive arrangement in regards of the Shipment of
funds, I wish to inform you that all necessary modalities have been
automatically concluded and has left South Africa to Europe via your
Country today by Express Cargo Flight. Note carefully the content of
the crate is "MONEY" part payment of Fifteen Million United States
Dollars Only (US$15,000,000.00) but I did not disclose it to the
Courier Services as Money, rather I informed them that the crate
contain Vital "DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS" belonging to my client (That's
you).



Furthermore, the weight of the consignment is 120kg. On No account
should you disclose the content of the Crate with the Diplomatic
Courier Services for fear of Betrayal. So do not allow them to know
that the Content is money, attached with this mail is the two trunk
boxes that contents the funds (US$15,000,000.00), attached with this
mail is the picture of your funds when it was been counted by the CBSA
officials and arranged in trunk box for onward shipment and the last
picture was taken when the Diplomatic official want to cargo your box at the
International Airport.


In the meantime, contact the Diplomatic Courier Services through their
E-mail address:(fcssuk2@yahoo.co.uk) today to know the actual
situation with the consignment and also give Them your address where
the consignment will be Delivered and then get back to me as soon as
possible so that I can give you the shipment document and keys to box.

Congratulations and remain blessed.

Best Regards,

Mr. Tom Wright.





Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> Besuchen Sie Ihre Group im Web unter:
http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/loe_intern/

<*> Um sich von der Group abzumelden, senden Sie eine Mail an:
loe_intern-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.de

<*> Mit der Nutzung von Yahoo! Groups akzeptieren Sie unsere:
http://de.docs.yahoo.com/info/utos.html




Anti-fraud resources: