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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: "ahmed mahmoud" <ahmedmahmoud001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: anthony_jhnson@katamail.com
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:12:50 -0900
Subject: good day!urgent...




Dear Friend,
 
I am a liberian married with four
kids. three boys with one girl.After much considration with my wife .I got your contact through my private seach for a reliable friend.

I worked under charles Taylor regime as a chairman controling diamond mines in my country Liberia.

I made away  with $10,500.000.00m.
this fund was successfully secure in International Commercial Bank Ghana Ltd,First Light Branch
Accra, Ghana .

During that time our president was asking for this missing money  in my  custody though i convinced him that am not in position of such fund.

Because of this i was sacked before my tenure in the regime and some of my properties was sieze and my account was frozen. before i run to stay in nigeria on political assylum.Since then they are still looking for me because of the money.

Thus I am compelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account. before i finally travel to meet with you in your country for investment.I do need to stress that there are
practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer.

All I need from you is to stand as partner that jointly depositor of this fund.This will enable you to receive the money on my behalf without me showing up.

If you accept this offer,I am willing to negotiate a good percentage to you for your assistance.

i will give to you more details when I hear from you.


Awaiting your kind response.


Regards,

ANTHONY JOHNSON

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