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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: MARK KOFFi <markkoffione@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 07:15:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENTS RESPONSE/ CALL ME



ATTN: TAMMY KING

FROM: MARK KOFFI

TEL: 27 78 374 88 78

Thank you very much for your email you sent and my mother and I are very happy to hear from you again and regarding the question I asked you , I would love to know the type of business are you doing in your country to enable me to know where the money will be invested in your country and you never respond to the question ?

Moreover, I would love you to send your personal contact number to me to enable us to communicate with each other through phone or you can contact through the above number stated above , as you can see that since my father past away me and my mother are here in south africa as an asylum seeker and since them we have been paying a lot of money to the security company for the safe keeping of the consignment

First of all, you have to arrange your trip to south africa to enable us to see each other face to face and to sign all the necessary documents that back up including to sign the contract agreement between you and me because the bank manager who will assist us to transfer the money out of south africa mentioned that upon your arrive in south africa that this transaction can only take two to three working days before everything will be over so it will be better if you come down to south africa to enable us to conclude this transaction over here.

But if you cannot be able to come down to south africa that means I will inform the security company where the money was lodged for them to move the fund out of south africa to europe so that we can meet over there but the security company mentioned to me that they can be able to move the fund to this countries, DUBAI, AMSTERSDAM HOLLAND, SPAIN,

Finally, bear in mind that before we can do anything you have to send your passport copy to enable the lawyer to use that to prepare an agreement which we have to sign first before proceed and your contact number is needed ok

best regards

MARK KOFFI




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