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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: Mrs.Alina Tester John <alinatester@atla.cz>
Reply-To: alinatester@atlas.cz
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:06:44 +0100
Subject: Mrs. Alina Tester John,


Greetings in the name of the Lord,

I am Mrs. Alina Tester John, nationality of Norway. I married to Dr. Tester John of united state of Amirica who worked with Chevron Texaco as oil consultant/contractor in Africa for twenty years before he died in the year 2000. We were married for twenty-seven years without a child. He died during one of the riot in the Niger delta region .He was held hostage and slain to death by protesting youths of the region.

Before his death we were both born again Christians. Since his death I decided not to re-marry. When my late husband was alive he made a numbered time (Fixed) deposited for twelve calendar months, valued at $8m.usd (Eight Million U.S.Dollars) with security code number ES493DLXN876208652. With a security financial firm in Europe. Meanwhile, this money is still with the bank and the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf.

Presently I am with my laptop in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live. It is my last wish to see that this money is invested and proceed at the end of every year distributing items among charity organization. I want God fearing person like you that will use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows. I took this decision because i know that there are a lot of poor people suffering from different kind of disease, disaster and nobody to come to their aid.

With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Security Company and letter of change of ownership. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here in.

Please my Dearest one, I need your maximum corporation to enable me fulfil my last dream.

Yours in Christ,

Mrs. Alina Tester John,




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