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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: "Loi Estrada" <loic_estrad@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: loic_estrada@personal.ro
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:11:25 +0000
Subject: AWAITING URGENT

From: MRS LOI ESTRADA.

Dearest,

Difficulties encountered in efforts to establish a
business abroad necessitate this search for someone
to assist me in securing and investing the sum of
USD45,000,000 (forty-five million dollars) deposited
in an escrow account in my name with a finance
management company in Europe.

By way of summarized profile of myself, I am Senator
Luisa Pimentel Estrada, a 75years old lady and the
first wife of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (former head
of state and President of Philippines) who is presently
held in detention in a hospital outside manilla,
Philippines.This money are in bonds and was kept in an
escrow account of the finance company for safe keeping
and I have all documents with me as of when it was
deposited with the firm. However, the current
administration of Gloria Arroyo (The President of
Philippines) is seeking the death of my husband. In
pursuit of this vendetta, the present Government have
resolved to freeze all known assets of Joseph Ejercito
Estrada including properties at home and abroad and are
presently embarking on to seize the various bank accounts
of my Husband in Switzerland, UK and Australia. In fact,
the attack on our family (The Estrada's) is so devastated
to an extent of seizing our traveling passport, family
accounts, trying some members of our family in court for
offences allegedly committed by my Husband and even
restrict us from seeing my husband. My son was released
from detention on the agreement to refund $1.5 million to
the Government of Philippines allegedly stolen by my Husband.
You can find this on;

http://latelinenews.com/ps/english/29432.shtml
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/2001/0129/cover1.html
http://www.estrada.com

We are not ready to comply with this as most of the
family assets and bank accounts abroad have been frozen by
the Arroyo regime. In view of this grievous threat to our
Economic and personal survival, our family trustee
have secretly protected the deposit, you are to assist us
to contact the Finance company in Europe to lay claims of
the funds with the aid of legal documents that will be
forwarded to you. In other to facilitate the transfer
of the funds, you would be required to open a non
residential transit account with your company name with the
finance company if you are not residing in the country where
the finance company is located. In the meantime, there is
a traveling embargo on the family members and our local
accounts are seized as well as our telephone lines
have been bugged. For this reason, telephone conversation
will not be an ideal means of communication because our
calls will be recorded. We are currently being catered for
by the Government of Philippines in other to monitor and
control our financial activities. We cannot be held
responsible for the sins of my Husband. In view of this
plight, I expect you to be trustworthy and kind enough to
respond to this distressed call to save our family from
a hopeless future. And if you agree to help, we shall
discuss the disbursement ratio in our next correspondence
after we have been acquainted.

To summarize this traumatic story, I have decided to
offer 20% of the above sum to anyone who assists us to
secure these funds overseas or 30% share for possible
help on investing in any reliable venture. If you would
want to proceed under these terms, please reply for
detailed information. If you do not accept my offer,
please in good fate treat with utmost confidentiality.

Please note that email correspondence will be safer
due to the fact that all our phone lines have been bugged.

Sincerely yours,

MRS. LOI ESTRADA.

NB: please reply to: loic_estrada@personal.ro


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