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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: "Mrs.Paulina Owusu" <jun201965@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: family_kpawee@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:49:19 -0800
Subject: Compliment Of The Season.

From: Mrs.Paulina Kpawee Owusu
Address: Bujumbura Refugee Camp
Box 462 State house-Accra-Ghana
E-mail: family_kpawee@yahoo.com

Sir,
Greetings of the season,
I hope this may not constitute sort of embarrassment to you,
first I must solicit your confidence in this transaction,
this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential
and top secret. But I am assuring you that all will be well
at the end of the day.
I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction, as I wish to rely on your discreteness and
ability in transaction of this nature. I was meditating
about it and I remember seeing your contact details via
a website in Internet and I feel led by the Almighty
God to contact you on this mutual transaction.How are
you and the daily activities including your family,Hope
everybody is fine? alhough we've not met before one on
one as persons.

Before I proceed further, l will first start by
introducing my self properly to you.
My name is Mrs. Paulina Kpawee Owusu,I am a
citizen of Liberia, the wife of the former Ministry
of Lands, Mines & Energy,Dr Humphrey Nana Owusu,
who was killed during the Liberia war by the rebels.
My husband died and left behind physical cash of
$6.7 Million USD which he safely kept in a Property
Security Company, during his regime in the office.

I want to invest this money in any profitable business
of your choice in your country.
I am seeking for Investments advice, as
I will hereby detail you everything concerning
this transaction hence you will indicated your
willingness to help me out.I am fully assuring
and guarantee you that you will never ever regret
this assistance you are to render to me this day.

Our relationship will extend to our families even
our generation to come. I have a proposal for you;
this however is not mandatory nor am I in any manner
compelling you to honor it against your wish.
I got to know about you during my search for
an Investor /individual to assist me claim and
invest the said cash left on my care by my late
husband that is to be the last legacy, we can
achieve for my four children.
Although, he did not embezzle these funds, it
emarginated from a Contract he awarded to a
German Construction Firm, during his days in office,
as his 10% Commission.
I am on my kneel,soliciting your assistance to be
my foreign partner because I've not been to
Europe/America, before in my life and I don't
want to make any costly mistake that will make
me lose my money. I want to assure you that you
will be entitled to 20% of the total sum for your
assistance.
On the 5th of December 2005, I was secretly contacted
by one God fearing gentleman that works as a storekeeper
to the Property Security Company, that we should quickly
come for the collection of our deposited {Consignment}
with them, that some dubious senior officers of the
management are planning to transfer out our belonging
to unknown designation for their own selfish interest,
that he knowing fully well that I am the depositor’s
wife of their late client.
Based on this top reveled secret, I was forced to applied
for the immediate release of the {Consignment} to me, but
to my greatest surprise, they turned back my application
and said it can be only being release to the mentioned
partner on the deposited documents information’s in
their database.
Few days back, I was able to reach out to our family
attorney, and narrated the whole ugly situation to him,
he promised to give me every legal assistance to until
the money move out of the company and african shore,
I was also advised that the next alternative to retrieve
the deposited item, is to source for a trusted /reliable
foreigner who will present his or herself as the business
partner to my late husband, although the deposit was made
in a {DISGUISED} way, that the content in the deposited box
is {FAMILY VALUABLES} he also claimed that the {Consignment}
belongs to his business partner in oversea, the partner name
and contact address that was mentioned in the deposit documents
is not in existence and is only me and my late husband knows
that what it contained was physical cash of $6.7 Million USD.
Before now, a concrete arrangement have made down already
waiting for the execution as we worked it out to retrieve
this money through the help of an insider in the company,
who promise to assist us in replacing the formal deposit
data with yours, hence you will not seat on the funds when
it gets to your designation, as I do not have the access to
make claims on the deposits by myself and the only way is
to present you as the real foreigner that will make the
claims directly with the Property Security company, as you
will be directed to do, so that the funds will be release to
you for my immediate investment.

Presently I and my four children are residing in the refugee’s
camp in here Ghana under the auspices of the United Nations.
All I want is for you to receive the money and send invitation
letter for me to join you. Your urgent reply will enable me
to arrange with the Security Company to move this money through
their Special Diplomatic Courier services to your country,
for you to claim it until I meet with you for sharing as stated above.
All the necessary documents of the deposit from the Security
Company are with me here. Please, if you are capable of
assisting us in this mutual transaction, in your reply,
kindly include a brief profile of you together with your
private telephone and fax numbers for an easy communications.
But Incase, you are not capable to handle it as stated,
be kind to introduce some one that is exprience enough into business
to quickly contact me as a matter of urgency.

God bless you and your family in this period of
festival holidays.

Thanks for your co-operation.
Yours Sister
Mrs. Paulina Kpawee Owusu





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