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.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "FRED ALLEN" <fredallen7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fredallen000@myway.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:26:48 -0700
Subject: DONATION FOR MINISTRY AND GOD'S WORK.

, Dear Beloved in Christ,

May God be with you and richly bless you as you read
this without prejudice. Amen!

I am Pastor Fred Allen, from the Federal Republic
of Benin and a lawyer by profession. To the Glory of
God, I was priviledged to be a close friend and
confidant to a late brother in Christ Rev. Hilary
Dariye, who worked tirelessly both in his private life
and in the service of God in his lifetime before his
devine call. May his soul rest in perfect peace. Amen!

In all my association with this late brother and
friend, this revelation, the object of this mail was
never made known to me because the late Rev. Hilary
lived a very disciplined life. He was wealthy before
he went into ministry and adequately provided for his
family and also cared for people who were opportuned
to come in close contact with him.

However, shortly before his call to eternal Glory, he
had summoned me to sick bed and made me promise to
carry out his last wishes as a trusted friend and
confidant. I promised without knowing what he was
about to say and also, at the time, I believed he was
not going to die. Well, he told me he had a fortune of
6.0M USD, which he intended to be used for charity,ministry, evangelical
work or otherwise when he was gone, but did not want his immediate family to
know
about for fear of subversion of his promise and pledge
to God.

He then prayed for me and blessed me trusting that I
would not subvert his pledge to God. Before he died,
he gave me information concerning the fund and what I
was to do. With all due respect to him, I waited for
the completion of the burial rites and mourning and
other sundry matters concerning him before proceeding to reach you.

I have prayed concerning this issue for God's guidance
and if in your heart you geniunely desire to use this
fund for the propagation of God's work in any form
wether for charity, ministry, evangelical work or
otherwise in relation to God's work, do get in touch
with me and let us pray together over this before we
can make further arrangements.

God bless you once again and as you receive, give God
all the Glory.

You are blessed in Christ Jesus.

Yours in the Lord,

Pastor Fred Allen



--

Anti-fraud resources: