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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: larry thompson <larry_1thompson@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 01:16:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: meeting you in good faith



Good Day,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. i got your contact from a computerize data following my effort searching for a
trustworthy person to assist me.

I am larry thompson from liberia, the only son of late Dr and Mrs Simon thompson, I am in cape coast town ghana because of the money my late father deposited with international commercial in ghana for safekeeping and onward transfer .my father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Ghana,the economic capital of Ghana, before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business deal.

Before the death of my father,He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $18,500.000(Eighteen million five hundred thousand united states dollar)deposited in international commercial bank ghana.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that we should seekfor a good God fearing foreign partner in a country of our
choice who can assist me in claiming this fund from the bank for me for investment purposes and use it for investment (such as real estate management).

We are honourably seeking your assistance in the
following way.

1)To assist me claim this fund from the BANK as the foreign partner of my late father.

2)To transfer this money in your nominated account in your country.

3)To make a good arrangement for a joint business
investment on my behalf in your country and you will be the caretaker.

4)To secure a college for me in your country to further my education. And to make arrangement for my travel to your country after you have transferred this fund.

Most importantly. Moreover , I willing offer you 20% for compensation, 5% for any expencess that you make in this transaction sum(percentage) as compensation for your effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your nominated account in your country.as soon as you get back to i will forward all document that is regarding this transaction to you so that you understend wisly.hope to read from you soon.

my best regards
larry thompson







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