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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: "uche ofor" <barr_ucheofor@mail.md>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:18:27 +0000
Subject: Bank Transfer

Dear ablo,

Could you just explain the situation and if you have been able to send the money to account i gave to you in the Netherland-Amsterdam for the consignment.

Mrs Silifat is very worried at the moment due to the way you are handling this by using a slow process in approaching the business.

Mrs Silifat has been mailing me to know the situation of things expecting to hear from both of us on when to meet you as soon as you receive the consignment from the security company.

Due to the situation in iraq i instructed my assistant to help in this process so that we can rapidly do what we are suppose to do, let me know if you have been able to load the account. I instructed him to send you the account infomation in netherland which i assumed you received,please give me an update.

Thanks for you co-operation.
Barr Peter Norton.



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