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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: "Donvay Yeuhan" <donvayeuhan02@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:34:13 +0000
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE/RESPONSE PLEASE!!!


NAME:DON NUHAN VAYE
EMAIL:donvaye@tangana.com
TEL:+31-627-331-575.

Dear Sir/madam,

Kindly accept my apology for sending my mail to you. Am a true God fearing
person, and I want you to trust me and help me out in this my condition. I
believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact that I
sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your country
in the Internet.

Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and
fragile political situation in Liberia but it has formed consistent
headlines in the CNN, BBC news bulletins for some time now.

My Name is DON NUHAN VAYE from Liberia, a Country in West Africa. My late
Brother is Issac Nuhan Vaye, Deputy Minister of Public Works in Liberia. My
Brother was falsely accused of plotting to remove the then PRESIDENT OF
LIBERIA CHARLES TAYLOR) from office. Without trial, Charles Taylor killed
him. You can verify this from some of the international newspapers posted in
the web sites below:

Before my brother was killed, he had taken me to South Africa were he
deposited the sum of $12.5 million (Twelve Million,Five Hundred Thousand
America Dollars) with a Security Company.Now that I am here in the
Netherlands were I am presently seeking a political asylum,I would like you
to help me claim the fund as I can not do that myself because the law does
not permit me to do so as an asylum seeker.

I will remunerate you with 20% of the total money at the end, while 5% of
the money will be set aside for all expenses during the transaction.But most
of all is that I solicit your trust in this transaction.

There is no risk of what so ever in this transaction.Should this interest
you ,please call or contact me through the e-mail adress stated below for
onward proceedings: -
donvaye@netscape.net
Please your urgent response is needed.

Best Regards.

DON NUHAN VAYE.





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