joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Marry Bell" <marrybell2000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: akimjones5000@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:08:24 +0000
Subject: Your Winning Notification....

UK LOTTERY PROGRAM 2006.



DEAR SIR/MADAM,

We are pleased to inform you, that as result of our Lottery DRAWS HELD on
the 21/05/2006 and anouce on 21/09/2006. Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number 27522465896-532 with serial number 652-662 drew lucky numbers
7-14-18-23-31-45 which consequently won in the 1st category. you have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of USD1.3M note that All
participants in this lottery program have been selected randomly through a
computer ballot system drawn from over 200,000 companies and 400,000,000
individual email addresses from all search engines and web sites.

This promotional program takes place every year, and is promoted and
sponsored by eminent world personalities like the (SULTAN of Brunei, Bill
Gates of microsoft inc and other corporate organisations). This is to
encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. For security
purpose and clarity, (we advise that you keep your winning information
confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted
to you.) This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.We look forward to
your active participation in our next year USD500 million slot.You are
requested to contact our LOTTERY COORDINATOR:

MR.AKIM JONES
UK LOTTO COMPANY
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
email: akimjones5000@yahoo.com

Below to assist you recieve your winnings and furnish you with any
information you may need. all winnings must be claimed not later than
03/10/2006. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, remember to quote your WINNING NUMBERS SERIAL numbers and
TICKET numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any
change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional
program. You are required to reply to this email: akimjones5000@yahoo.com
for further details.

NOTE: YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Marry Bell.

_________________________________________________________________
FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now!
http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/


--

Anti-fraud resources: