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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: "Dr.Casmir Poyh" <casmir_p12@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:56:22 +0100 (BST)
Subject: About The Shell Development Company,Oil and Gas Engineering CoordinatorsWith Mr.John Singh


Dear Mr.Singh
How are you together with your family,i hope fine. I am still waiting to hear from you Singh,please don't let all my effort to contact you via E-mail to be in vain, please could you tell me know your stand because i don't have time to play games and i will never allow this money to be shared only by the owners of the bank,so kindly give me a valid telephone number where i can call and speak with you, treat this as a matter of urgency because time is not on our favour. I want to let you know that in this transaction i will feed you up with all information concerning this transaction, but what i need from you is understanding,meanwhile do quickly and submit to me all your information to enable me insert it.
Honestly if you will do this quickly every thing will get done within two to three weeks,so I am waiting for your information to complete the insertion so that our bank serve security will remark it after inserting of your information as the next of kin contact in our list,so that when you will apply to our bank no person can question you for been the next of kin hence it has been computerise,ok
So as soon as i recieve your next mail with your particulars as follow:
1,Your full name and address:,because all the documentations that we are going to procured will be with your contact information,I hope you know that this business required urgent and confidential,
2,Your International Passport or Driver Licenses is very important in this business because there are some offices that will need to see the photocopy of the beneficiary.
3,Your Direct Telephone Number and Contact Fax line, because those documents we are going to procure will be send through your fax line and it must be your direct fax number for security reason. After the fund will be transfered into your account through the bank were the fund is.
6,Private bank account which the money will be paid or transferred into.
Iam waiting to hear from you
Have a nice day you and your family,
Dr.Casmir Poyh




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