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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: "dennisamah" <dennisamah@terra.com.mx>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:36:03 +0000
Subject: God Bless You


Good day and God Bless you.

Permit us to inform you of our desire for you to help us. Obviously, you
might be surprised on recieving this mail due to we have not known before.
By brief introduction , I am Dennis Amah 23 years old , and my sister patricia amah is 21years old,a citizen of Sierra

Leone and the only son of late Mr and Mrs JAMES FRANCIS AMAH,
My Late parents was killed by the rebels in my home town Mende district,
the second Economic Capital of Sierra Leone during the recent Political
crisis of Sept, 2002 . After their death, I and my younger sister Patricia ,
manage to run out of our Country to Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, where we are
staying now for our safety.
My father was a Wealthy Cocoa and Gold Merchant before he met his sudden
death . Before their death in a private hospital , my father secretly
disclosed

to me of the total Sum of $32,000,000.00 (million US Dollars) he
deposited in TWO Truck boxs with a Security company here in Abidjan, Cote
d' ivoire. He further disclose to me that he did deposit the Truck boxs as
FAMILY TREASURES for security reasons and he use my name as the beneficiary
of the Truck Boxs.

1) Dear one, please I am honourably seeking your assistance to assist us in
claiming out this Truck boxs from the security company and transfer this
money into your accounts overseas,

2) and also stand as a guardian to us.

3) I will also like you to make arrangement for my younger sister to further her Education in your country,

4) and also help me dennis to investing this money into any lucrative business in your country,

5) we shall give you 30% of the Totall money,


6) we want you to bear in mind that you will help us to take care of every expenditure that may occure during the process of the transfer of this boxs to your country, but don't worry because any money you spend will be refund to you

7) we was born and bred in a Catholic Church. I was baptized so many years ,and we are a confirmed member. I take my holy communion also.I am a full fledged member of the church. but your religion here does not matter,

8) we have the deposited certificate of this money that our late farther usu to deposity this boxs to the security company to prof our Sincerely to you,


9) please permit us to ask, can you honestly help us as you own person,

10) can i completely trust you,

11) please treat this email conffidential and get back to us as soon as possible,

12) we will like to know more concerning you,


Please, get back to us through the above email address to enable us inform you the
requirement ,before the transfer of the box to your country, Email us and Please
send your reply to me with this above email address

Thanks for your kindness and God bless you.

Expecting to hear from you.

Best regards,

Dennis And Patricia Amah
dennisamah220@yahoo.com

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