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

Fraud email example:

From: "IZAMUDDIN MOHD DIN" <izamuddin3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: izamuddin2@myway.com
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:32:02 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir / Mma

Dear Sir / Mma

Compliment of the season to you

I know that my greetings to you might come as a surprise, but I apologized
for taken you on such surprise without my early notice to you.

First of all I will like to explain who I am before I could tell you the
reason why I contacted you.

My name is Izamuddin Mohd Din [28 years old] I am from Malaysian but I was
bone and brought up in English Colonized Country
And my late father was an international business man, I lost my mother when
I was still little 5 months old, so I don't really know who my mother was,
but I were brought up by my father in London while my father also has office
in Dubai and he does business with some Arabic contractors in the year back
1999 and by year 2000 he was attacked by a disease Cancer and was fly back
to London to hospitalize him, but after some months his condition came
serious and we left London to My country Malaysia

And my father dies 2 weeks after we came back to my country

On the 29 December 2005 I received a letter came as a package posted by one
of my fathers Arabian Business partner, and which the letter was a copy of
deposit certificate payment slip and a written note that his share [$ 15.5
million u s d ] of the last contract done has been deposited in a financial
security home in Indonesia Jakarta, and of which is only the depositor and
my father that knows about the contains of the consignment deposited in the
finance home and which no body has right to make the claim without the legal
covering documents that is with me right now.

So the reason why I contacted you, is to ask for your assistance to help me
represent as the legal beneficiary of the consignment under the finance home
care, I will hand you over the legal documents and the legal changing of
ownership will be done to back you up as you forward for the claim of the
consignment on my behalf, and after you make the claim I promise to give you
25% of the total amount and my own share I will invest in your country and
will need your assistance to lead me through on the investments on the right
things to invest

Please if you are interested in this great opportunity kindly get back to me
with the following.

[1] Your full name
[2] Your address
[3] Your direct phone / mobile
[4] Your fax number


I will be expecting to hear from you soonest.
Best regards
Izamuddin.


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