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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: "JOAO SAVIMBI" <joao_savimbi02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: joao_savimbi300@yahoo.ie
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:29:54 +0000
Subject: {Spam!} FROM MALAYSIA PLEASE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY.

Good Day
I got your contact through an email directory and decided to contact you for
assistance. I am the son of Jonas Savimbi, the rebel leader in
Angola who was shot dead on the 25th of February 2002, by the opposing
Angolan Army. Before the death of my father, he deposited the sum of Eight
million nine hundred thousand dollars ($8,900, 000.00) only in a
finance/security Company here in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia . My father handed
all the legal documents for the deposit to me in trust and for safe keeping
for the family. Also, after the death of my father, my family and I fled to
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia where we are currently living on political asylum home
please, take a look at this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1839000/1839252.stm
So, we want you to help us make claims of this fund ($8.9M) from the
Finance/security Company here in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia as can come down here
in Malaysia and we meet face to face and arrange on how you will open a
domiciliary account in any of the exiting bank here in Malaysia and transfer
the funds as you will stand as my family Beneficiary and transfer the money
to your nominate account or any account of your choice for that matter
before I and my family can get
Visa to fly down to your country for mutual sharing of the money. My family
has agree to give you 35% for your anticipated assistance and 60% would be
for us (my family) and the remaining 5%would be set aside for any expenses
that we may incur during the course of this transaction. My family share of
60%would be invested in your country in any profitable business proposed by
you. We believed that we can only accept to work with you only when you can
come down here and see things for yourself as seeing is believing! Please,
treat this as Confidential and reply to
joao_savimbi300@yahoo.ie
Best Regards,
Mr.Joao Savimbi.

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