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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: malu gallas <malugallas1@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 05:59:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED!!!


Dear Leigh,

i am contacting you because i got your contact from one of the Directors from the south african reserve bank. he has giving me the confidence about you and told me that your account will be able to accomodate such amount of the money that i want to transfer today or tomorrow as the case may be. this is to tell you the level of urgency needed.

the fund in question is gotting from over invoiced contract amount which is ready to be transferred immediately. is $8.8million Dollars. am ready to share 50/50 with you. you do not need to spend money. all i need from you is maximum cooperation and trust and confidence.

upon your response i will tell you what to do and it will only take 2working days to get the fund transferred. if you are scared to provide your account please open a new one.

i will provide you my contact details as we proceed. i work with standard bank and a special consultant to the reserve bank on audit matters.

regards,
malu gallas

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