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

Fraud email example:

From: "Oliver Malagigi" <oliver_gi@z6.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: olivermalagigi@myway.com
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:42:55 +0400
Subject: Please render me this help

Dear Friend
Good day and compliment of the seasons to you. My Name is Oliver Malagigi,
the son of Late Nosah Christopher Malagigi the former Minister of sport in Ethiopia.
I am 27-Year-Old in possession of my late father's properties.

I lost him in a plane crash during his trip from a meeting he attended
with some other ministers in Addis Ababa. Since his death, I have been in
charge of his business and properties and I have got no problem with
that since I have been doing that before his death.

I received a letter from one of his bank in Ethiopian recently notifying
me of a payment worth 22.5Million dollars made into his account by a
computer firm Named "IF Computer GmbH Cecinastr" 37D-82205 Gilching, Germany.

The money as I read was the balance payment from a computer business he
engaged in with the Federal Government of Ethiopian during the completion of the new Ethiopian airport. As a result of this notification I have written a letter through my Lawyer to the bank to deposit the Money into a security vault company in South Africa, which I have successfully carried out in the last two month.

Since I am his next of kin, it was so easy for me in doing this without
the knowledge of my family members. I want to try as much as possible to transfer his money out of this security company before my family members got to know about it.

This deal is a risk free one and I am ready to offer you 15% of this money
provided you co-operate with me.

Remember not to tell anybody about this because my father happens to be
very popular person even after his death.
Please do not forget to disclose your contact address/phone number to me in your reply for a flexible communication while I hope that we meet one on one soon for the plans as to which area we should invest the money.

I will be very grateful if you can help me.
You can get back at me on my Private email:oliver_gi@z6.com
Oliver Malagigi.


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