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: Valili zuma <vzuma33@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: vzuma37@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:04:25 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Can you solicit for me


Greetings from Vlili Zuma
Address: rue 152 cocody Abidjan
Cote d' Ivoire.


Hello,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot be able to see you face to face at first. Being the only daughter of my father, late Dr. PHILIP ZUMA from Sierra-Leone Africa (WA) I am 20 years of age.

My father was limited liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Freetown Sierra-Leone before his untimely death. After his business trip to SOUTH AFRICA to nagociate on a good investment business he wanted to invest in SOUTH AFRICA.

A week after he came back from SOUTH AFRICA , he got an accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon, I didnt know that my father was going to leave me after I had lost my mother, but before he gave up to the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that he deposited sum of $7,500,000,00 Dollars (Seven Million,Five Hundred Thousand u.s Dollars) in a Security Company in Europe. He said that the money was meant for his Investment, which he wanted to establish in SOUTH AFRICA. He directed me to his lawyer where he filed it and seek gaudiance on how i could do with the deposit certificate with the agreement bound with the Security Company in Europe and instructed me to seek for a reliable,experince and trust worthy business partner who can help me out in Europe with the Security Company there for
my life time investment abroad.

Now I have succeeded in locating the documents and the agreement bound with the Security Company in Europe which i also confirmed that the money was there with most honest and confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me claim this money out from Security Company in europe and transfer it into to your safe account abroad so that we should invest this money in any meaningful lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.

I am willing to offer you 5% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction and give you the contact of the security company there in europe an the documents related to it. I await your immediate response for more details.

Yours sincerely.
VALILI ZUMA,


---------------------------------
Découvrez le blog Yahoo! Mail : dernières nouveautés, astuces, conseils.. et vos réactions !

Anti-fraud resources: