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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: "adams mike" <adams_mike01@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:56:04 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE.

Gladys Radebe
Email Reply:gladysradebe@myway.com.



Dear Sir/Madam,

Goodday, on behalf of the daughter of Mr Luke Radebe from
Zimbabwe. I am sorry this mail will surprise you, I
got your contact through South African Chamber of
Commerce.
During the current war against white farmers in
Zimbabwe and the support of president Robert Mugabe to
claim all the white owned farms in our country, All
white farmers were asked to surrender their farms to
the government and infact to his political party
members and my father though black, was the treasury
of the farmers association and a strong member of an
opposition party did not support his idea. He then
ordered his party members to invade my fathers farm,
burn down everything in the farm. They killed my
father and took away a lot of items from his farm.
after the death of my father, me and my mother
decided to move out of Zimbabwe because
our lives were in danger. We left with a huge amount of
money my father kept in a hidden safe in my mothers
room with instruction to leave Africa should anything
happen to him. The total amount as it is coded is
US$22.5Million and is right now deposited
with a security company in europe
as a valuable items We are therefore soliciting for
your assistance to help us move the fund out
as our fate and future is far from reality,
hence this mail to you.
Should you be interested to help us, contact us
immediately with your contact numbers for easy
communication and I will furnish you with the time
frame and modalities of the transaction. Please note
that this transaction is 100% confidential and risk
free and will not endanger you or us in any way .We
have resolved to give you 23% of the total sum upon
confirmation of the fund in any account of your choice

and we look forward to coming over to
your country to invest our share and settle there.

Email: gladysradebe@myway.com

This mail was been sent to you by our pastor who is on a crusade in europe.

God bless you

Gladys Radebe


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