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: chantal kouakou <chant04k4@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <chantalk04@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:36:20 +0000
Subject: Greeting,



Greeting,

it is with respect and humility that
I you I write to request your high benevolence, an assistance of great
importance.

I wish to request your assistance in the migration and the
investment in your country the fortune which I hertitée my father. Briefly, I am
a sierra léonaise 22 years old and the only daughter of late DR. Kouakou Bah
Theodore. Until his death, my father was the Director general of a company of
diamond and gold extraction in the area of Kanema in Sierra Leone.
On April
6, 2002 the military forces faithful to the government of Ahmed TIJAN KABBAH
invaded the gold and diamond mine and assassinated my father, confusing it with
his brother kouakou Sankoh who is the deputy of (RUF) of revolutionist FODAY
SANKOH.Quand my mother, absent bus come to see me in ivory coast where I study
in a large school learned the news, it is retounée with the country despite
everything the risks and recovered some of the businesses which it considered
crowned for my father in our villa of family. Among the recovered objects a file
containing of the details of a deposit appeared that my father made in a company
of company of safety in Abidjan Ivory Coast.

It deposited $ 10.500.000
there, 00 (Ten million five hundred and thousand of dollars of the United
States) contents in one (1) box of trunk to its name. It did not reveal the true
contents of the box at this company. Nevertheless it declared the deposit like
goods of family for reasons of safety. It is the money which my late father
gained starting from the sale of gold and diamonds during his time as Directeur
general.

Taking into account the unstable political climate in Dimension
d´Ivoire, I decided to seek a partner in order to invest this sum out of the
ivory Coast in profitable fields, it is thus the reason for which I come towards
you to request your assistance and to help us to invest in your country. The
best method to conclude this transaction seen the political tension dimensions
d´Ivoire of it, would be to dispatch the case containing the funds in your
country. The company of safety to the possibility of facilitating the things to
us by dispatching this case in your country by the diplomatic way which I
appreciate much. As of the arrival of these funds in your country, you will
recover them and safeguard them and engage the steps to help us to come to be
established in your country. Here because of its proximity to our country and
the war, our statute of refugee here cannot facilitate the businesses for
us.

We also ask you to seek reliable and lucrative businesses, so that
we can invest wisely. We have with the spirit to give you 15% of all the sum
(10.500.000, 00 million dollars $), and the share of 25% in any investment which
we will make at the come time if you agree to help us. This fortune that we
indicated to you should remain confidential.
in waiting to read
you.
please write to me on this address:
With the pleasure of
collaborating with you.
Yours sincerely,
Miss kouakou Chantal
_________________________________________________________________
Retrouvez tous les services Windows Live sur votre mobile !
http://mobile.live.fr/

Anti-fraud resources: