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.

 

 

Fraud email example:

From: "johansen woo" <johansen140@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johansen167@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:06:44 +0000
Subject: WITH TRUST

Dear Friend,
May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion with you by an
informal letter of this sort? It is pertinent that a business of this
Magnitude should have commenced properly with a formal meeting between You
and us to enable both parties know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of the
nature of the business, discuss and acquaint ourselves with the
responsibilities and functions of both parties and appropriate shares
accordingly. But as a result of the urgency of this operation I have decided
to contact you by mail to hear from you first before planning on the next
line of action.
My Name is Johansen Woo, I am vault Manager with a security company here in
London . This transaction if handled with outmost care and secrecy will be
successfully concluded within 10 days. In the year 2003 before the
beginning of the American led Coalition war in Iraq, a deposit of a
consignment was made here in our company by the late son of the former
president of Iraq Saddam Hussein Mr. Qusai Hussein who has since been
killed.
This deposit was made by Ouasai Hussein personally and no one in my office
at this moment knows that this consignment belongs to him only me and the
one other Computer Lodgment officer in our company. We have tried to
investigate the content of this box and found out that the consignment
contains money and in cash, worth US$65,000.000.00 (Sixty Five Million
Dollars), No one else in our office knows about the content and the owner
of this consignment as this was declared as family valuables.
We have therefore decided to find a way to take away this consignment from
our office and move the money out. Hence we are looking for a trust worthy
person internationally who will come forward to claim this consignment. I
have made necessary arrangements for the change of ownership of this
consignment to anybody name who is willing to work with us within 3 working
days of receipt of the information, we will need from you, we will do the
change of ownership, so that no one in our office will ever know what is
going on and move the consignment away from here to any of our company
agents outside London to any other part of Europe where it will be easy to
claim the items. Open a Bank account and distribute the cash.
If this proposal meets your interest please get back to me immediately by
email on my( johansenwoo2001@yahoo.fr) giving me your telephone numbers to
enable me give you further details on how we have planned to carry this
operation smoothly.
Your urgent response waited
Yours faithfully
MR JOHANSEN WOO



--

Anti-fraud resources: