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: Miss
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 21:31:19 +0100 (CET)
Subject:

Kinshasa.Dep Rep of Congo.
Email: annb3@myway.com
Dearest One,
REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME THUS:
Good day and how are you today? I hope fine. After going through your profile, permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you.
My name is Ama Bangura (18yrs).I am the only daughter of Late Chief. & Mrs. Claude Bangura. my father was a very wealthy diamond miner here in D.R.CONGO . He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip and my only brother was sentence to death by the Kabila ruling party for trying to investigate the dealth of our father and the upcoming democratic eletion and made our country more dangerous .
My mother was kept in the Military Barrack for Three Months under the osmosis of the Govt and My mum was release on the 16th of SEPT 2006 and We decided to seek refuge in Senegal ,were we are been strictly observe by the UN peace keepers who granted us asylum under the United Nations mandate.
Before the death of my father on July 17, 2006 in a private hospital in Kisangani, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Eighteen Million Two Hundred Thousand United State Dollars USD ($18.200,000) deposited in a suspense account in one of the Security / Finance company
He told me that he used my name (AMAELA) as the next of Kin in depositing the money, He then strongly advised me not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer ,nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of my choice (outside our country, CONGO that will assist me in the wise investment of the money.
But as you may be already aware by now, our country (CONGO) is presently at political crises. Rebels have already take the hold of the jungle over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards the capture of the commercial center of mining in Mbuji -Mayi, where I originated from.
Due to the poor health of my mother who was recently diagonise with cancer,she brought in his brother that is my uncle who is our overseas correspondence to evaluate and stand firmly with us until the transfer have been successfully completed.
For this reason, I have now decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out Africa where the funds are been kept in Senegal, before it is too late to do that. I now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management. Because of this I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into your bank account.
(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there permanently.
If you accept to stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, I need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist me invest it. But if you still want a percentage, I am willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Pleas tell me if you feel the percentage I offered is not ok by you.
As soon as I receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, We will then make contact with Finance Firm were the funds are been deposited for information’s that vital for successful transfer of the said amount into your account as I have finalize with my Uncle.
No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please I beg you to keep this highly secret for my safety, as I believe that those that killed my Daddy are still after me.
For further clarifications Please reply me through this my private and confidential email box. annb3@myway.com
Thanks and God bless you.
Best Regard,
Bangura A.


Anti-fraud resources: