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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: "KONAN AND SANDRA" <konanjohnson15@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: herox4@myway.com
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:17:05 +0100
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE

Rue 14 palm cocody
Abidjan Ivory Coast.
Hello, Good day ,We hope that all is well with you?And if so thanks be to God.

Our names are Konan Victor Johnson and Sandra Mary Johnson ,we are 20 and 19yrs old we are students,we are south africa cape town, Please we would like you to assist us as urgent as you can before they kill us.
Our father was a wealthy gold dealer. Trouble began early last year when my father's associates started suspecting that my father is not giving proper accounts ofall the tons of gold being supliered by local gold dealer in some villages.
This happened last year, 2006 when they discovered a very bigsome of money our father deposited in a Bank in this country Abidjan Ivory Coast.which is not our country , As a result of this discovery and the enviness of this money ,he was poisioned by his associates with the help of our relatives At <http://associates.at/> his hospital bed ,he revealed to me the reasons of his sickness.
He directed me as the son where to get the documents of the Money deposit in the Bank, that he made me the next of kin being the son .He advise me that if he dies , that we should not stay our country south africa because his associates and our relatives will equally kill us hence our mother died five years ago of breast cancer. He directed us if he dies that we should look for a foreign partner who will help us to transfer the money into his or her person's account and the person will help us to invest the money in his country,while we futher our education.
Our father finally died this year 5th of jan 2007 and since then we was out of school and went into hiding because of my father's associates and relatives All the relevant documents of the $7.5 million us dollars that was deposited are with me konan now .We are ready to give you half of the money , if you can help us transfer this money into your account for onward investment and the continuation of our education in your country cause we want to be greeat in future.

Please you can also contact us with my anotheremail which is sandramaryjohnson1@yahoo.com
please send us the following cause is important and the bank will need all.
1 - Your Telephone number
2 - Your full Address
3 - Your full name
4 - Your Fax
After we receive all this informations from you we will send to you all the necessary documents as regarding to our late fathers money before they kill us please
Best regards,

Konan V Johnson and Sandra Mary Johnson


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