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: ugo mordi <ugomordi28@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <ugomordi@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 05:46:26 +0100
Subject: FROMUGO MORDI


Dear Beloved in christ
How are you today? hope you are fine.Please permit me to introduce myself, I am ugo mordi,As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry forme,because, I believe everyone will die someday.I was a Crude Oil merchant in Zambia,my spinal cordwas broken after the motor accident i had a year and six monthsnow. It has defiled all forms of medic! al treatment
no improvements I stay one place in the Hospital without walking,this mail was written by one of the nurses who is in thehospital here and hard promised to keep this secret.
I await for death any time from now may be in the next fewmonths,according to medical experts. I have not particularlylived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone(noteven myself) but my business. Though I am very rich, I was nevergenerous, I was always hostile to people and only focused on mybusiness as that was the only thing I cared for. But now I regretall this as I now know that there is more to life than justwanting to have or make all the money in the world.
I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to thisworld I would live my life a different way from how I have livedit. Now that God has called me, I have willed and given most ofmy prope! rty and assets to my immediate and extended familymembers as w ell as a few close friends. I want God to be mercifultome,and accept my soul. so,I have decided to give alms to charityorganizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do onearth. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot dothismyselfanymore.
I once asked members of my family to close one of my accountsand distribute the money which I have to charity organization,they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do nottrustthemanymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have leftforthem.
The last of my money which no one knows of is the cash deposit witha Security Company . I will want you to help mecollect this deposit and distribute it to charity organizations.If you feel up to it and you are honestplease contact me asap.on my private email: ugomordi@yahoo.frI shall proceed to inform you on! how you get the donation fromthesecuritycompany.
May God bless you as you do for mankind.Yours in vineyardUgo mordi,


_________________________________________________________________
Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger 
http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline

Anti-fraud resources: