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.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "KATE SAVIMBI" <kate_savimbi@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: katesavimbi_1@o2.pl
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:24:51 +0000
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU FOR THIS

Dear sir,ma

I got your contact from a friend one Mr Ovedhe Samson and decided to contact you for assistance. I am the daughter of Jonas Savimbi the rebel leader in Angola who was short dead on the 25th of February, 2002, by the opposing Angolan Army.

....PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS WEB PAGE FOR IT SAYS

ALL<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1839000/1839252.stm>

Before the death of my father he had deposited the sum of $30,000,000.00(thirty million dollars)in a financier firm (security clearing house) and Diamond worth over $75M USD and Gold worth about 150,000,00 kilo which where also smuggled from the angola Mines to his personal safe-deposite box in GHANA..

All the legal documents for the deposit and letter of instruction how the fund will be invested are with me which my father gave to his confidencial attorney for safe keeping,pending when he will meet with me for handing it over to me which he have done.

After the death of my father I and my son fled to Africa (Ghana) where we are currently living. And we have been trying to move out of Ghana but it has been difficult for us to get visas from here . So we want you to help us make claims of this fund ($30m) in Ghana as my late father foreign partner and move the money to your account or any account of your choice before I and my son can get visas to move down to your country so that we can use the money to build house of the Lord where i and you will work for the Lord and win souls while my son will start school there in your country with your assistant, because right now he is not schooling because of our condition here in Ghana.

I and the lawyer have discuss and agreed to give any man of God who will assist in claiming this fund and investing it in the Lord will have 20%,of the money before the money can be used in building the house of lord on behalf of my late father as he have instructed when he was dieing in the hospital.

While a large part of our share will also be used to help charity motherless babies homes organizations. We have never met, but I want to trust you and please do not let us down when this fund finally gets into your account.And I want you to promise me that you will help me to invest this money in building a house hold of God in your country in my fathers name so that God almighty will accept his soul.

Please send to me your direct telephone and your direct mobil number and your fax number as well with your address and your full name to enable me consult my late fathers attorney who is here now in london, and introduce you to him so that he will process all the documents and change of owner ship to your name to enable the security financier firm identify you as the authorise person to receive the deposited fund with them.

Please if you are a God fearing man you can; get to me through my email address to enable me feed you with more details and all necessary documentations you need to proceed and you will be visiting us here in london for face to face meeting and for further directives on what you are to do.

Please treat this as confidential since you are a Reverend a man of God And you have to reply me on this alternative email : kate_savimbi@hotmail.com

Best regards.

Sister Kate Savimbi



Anti-fraud resources: