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: davidmoyani2005@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:26:43 -0800
Subject: FROM DAVID MOYANI

Greetings to you,

Don’t be surprise to receive this letter from me, I’m Mr. David Moyani, the son of
Mr. Vusi J. Moyani from Zimbabwe. I got your contact from the Internet website here
in South Africa.
My father was among the rich black farmers in Zimbabwe, who was murdered in acid
blood by the agent of the ruling party of President Robert Mugabe, because my late
father was against the method adopted by the government of the new land reform that
wholly affected the white farmers in Zimbabwe. Before the invention, my father took
me to South Africa, as if he foresaw the loaming danger in Zimbabwe, he deposited the
sum of US$10,500,000.00 (TEN MILLIOM FIVE HUNDREND THOUSAND US$ DOLLARS) with a
security and a financialcompany, please verify the information I gave to you from this
website: {www.zimbabwesituation.com.} This money was for buying farmland in Lesotho,
Swaziland, and also machinery for the farmyards.

Head of governments from the western world, especially, Britain UN and the U.S.A.
have voiced their consideration about Mugabe’s new land reform act. It‘s against
this background that my family has mandated me to seek assistance to transfer this
money out from South Africa to a foreign account for investment purpose. Presently
I’m residing in South Africa.

We can’t invest this money here in South Africa due to how close the two countries
are and they have almost the same political history, and with the financially law of
South Africa, as an asylum seeker, I do not have any right to open or own a bank
account in my name here in South Africa. From the above you can understand that my
entire life and my family’s future depend on this money.
I shall be grateful if you help me transfer this money into your company’s account
for investment purposes as my next of kin and as my late father’s partner. Please note
that this transaction is100% risk free, and for your effort, I’m prepared to offer you
20% of the total sum,
also I have decided to use 5% of the money to settle any expenses that may occur
during the process of the transfer.
The balance I intended to invest in a profitable venture in your country or anywhere
you may advice, the major thing I expect from
you is absolute assurance that this money will be safe when it gets to your account.
If this proposal is been accepted by you, please reply urgently to me to enable me
furnish you with more details. I will appreciate if you maintain the confidentiality
of this matter because of the happenings in my country-Zimbabwe. Verify from this
website <http://www.zimbabwesituation.com> Please get back to me throughdavidmoyani2006@yahoo.com

Yours sincerely

Mr. David Moyani.
Tel: +27-76-0878-758
E-mail:davidmoyani2006@yahoo.com















Anti-fraud resources: