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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Loli Aboulaye <loliaboulaye23@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:32:35 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Dearest one.




Dearest One

Complement of the day. It is my pleasure to write you.after much consideration and prayers which I have decieded to send you this mail, because I believe that you will be the assistance to me as I am The only daugther of my late father, MR AMEHD ABOULAYE, from Zulu in Republic of South Africa (SA) I am 19 years of old.

My father was a wealthy Cocoa and Gold merchant in South Africa before his untimely death.After his business trip to Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, to negotiate on Cocoa bisuness. A week after he came back from Abidjan, he was assassinated with my mother by unknow assassins. Wich my mother died, instantly but my father died after five days in the hospital, on that afternoon.

I didn’t know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother. But before he gave up the ghost, it was as if knew he was going to die. Oh, my father, (MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclose to me that he deposited the sum of $8,500,000 US Dollars ( eigth million five hundred thousand Dollars) in a security company in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

That the fund was meant for his cocoa business he wanted to invest in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. According to my father he deposited the fund in a trunk box, but declared it as Ivory, He simple handed me the key of the box the certificate of deposiet, the agreement made with security company, and he instructed me to seek for a life time investment abroad.Right Now I am in Abidjan COTE D' IVOIRE to locate where the security company is. Now I have succeded in locating the securiry company here in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and also confirmed the item with most honest and confidential. I want you to assist me in clearing this fund and transfer it to your country as a beneficiary of the fund, and also use it for an investment purpose as I come over to your countary.I am honourably seeking for your assistance in the following ways.

(1)To assist me to clear this fund from the security company and transfer it to your countary.
(2)To serve as the guardian of this fund as I am a girl of (19)yrs. Now I am seeking for your assistance to help me. Because this is my only hope in life.
I am waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discause the modalities of this transaction. Thanks for your kind attention and mutual
understanding.
Looking forward to hear from you immediately.
Best Regards
Miss loli aboulaye.




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