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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: "Timmy David-West" <timmiwest@sunnipath.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:36:06 -0500
Subject: READ CAREFULLY PLEASE.




Dear friend,


READ CAREFULLY PLEASE.
Though this approach appears desperate, difficulties encountered in efforts to establish a business abroad necessitate this search for someone to assist me in securing and investing the sum of $8,000000 (eight million US. dollars) deposited by my daddy abroad. By way of summarized profile of myself, I am Mr. Timmy David-West, the eldest son of Prof. Tam David-West the Formal Petroleum Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I have just received an instruction from my father recently to look for a reliable foreign partner/investor who can receive and manage his funds for him abroad until his ordeal with the Government is over, he is currently under detention and probe, his offences is political motivated {that he is aspiring for the office of the president come 2007 dispensation election}. However the money in question originated from his loots as Formal Petroleum Minister and sales of crude oil during his tenure as Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas. In order to avert this
negative development by the government, I seek your permission to allow us do a change of ownership/reassignment of credit as the new beneficiary on our behalf.

Our trustee have secretly protected this deposit abroad, so what we needed from you is to assist us in receiving this funds which we will start sending to you in bit by bit upon the receipt of your acknowledgement indicating your interest before our government will come to know about the existence of these funds, so that it would not be confiscated the way they have done to my father other deposit in Great Britain and the Switzerland.

Please indicate your interest by responding to my alternative email address at timwest@mixmail.com with the following information’s. (your full name), (your residential address), (your telephone/fax number) to enable us immediately start the transferring of the founds to you in Checks.

No doubt this proposal will make you apprehensive, please I employ you to observe utmost confidentiality and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us.

Please should In case you don’t accept this proposal please do not let us out to the security and international media as I am giving you this information in total trust and confidence I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith. Please expedite action.

Awaiting your swift response.

Yours sincerely,
Timmy David-West (Mr.)

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