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: "DR MILLER DOSKY" <dr_miller_69@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dr_miller_68@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:17:13 +0100
Subject: DEAR FRIEND,

ATTN: Dear friend,
Since the russian government have decided that the russian richest oil
tycoon, MR. MIKHAIL who was sentenced to eight years in prisoment on tax
evasion and fraud charges, neede medical attention in his prison custody,
then I been a medical
doctor and consultant to the prsedential house was assigned by the
presidency to be given every medical attention to MR.MIKHAIL in his prison
custody, who is ashmatic and has cadiarc arrest in jail.

With this great opportunity,I became the closest person to MR.MIKHAIL as
no body was given the opportunity to visit him in jail. Based on this
fact,as i often visit him in jail for medical treatment and attention,we
usually have confidential chats in respect of his hiden investments out
side the country,before his transfer to the solidarity prison camp in
russia,due to the trus and cofident he has in me,he disclosed to me that he
deposited the sum of fourty five million five hundred thousand million
united states dollars(U.S$45.5M) in a security/finance firm in Russia.

The government of russia has confiscated all his bank accounts and
valuable investements such as his yukos oil empire etc,due to this he
instructed
me to search for a honest and reliable partner outside russia who will
assist him in safe keeping of this said funds for the duration of his jail
term,before the russian government will discover this funds in the present
place of deposit in
russia.

Sequel to this we urgently seek for your assistance in safe keeping this
funds as you will be compensated with twenty percent(20%) of this said
fund. according to him you also stand a chance of investing fifty
percent(50%) of this sum in your investment for the period of eight years
MR.MIKHAIL will be free from jail, and five
percent(5%) will be disbursed to orphanage homes in your country. for more
details visit this website
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mikhail-K
hodorkovsky
http://www.supportmbk.com/

Finally if you are interested,urgently send me the following datas of
yours
1 Full names
2 Contact/residential
3 Phone and fax numbers
Upon the receipt of this informations we will proceed with the transaction
immediately.
please reply through my private box (dr_miller_68@yahoo.com)
Best Regards

Dr.Dosky Miller

_________________________________________________________________
Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!
http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/


Anti-fraud resources: