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: aandrewsolicitors@mchsi.com (Richard L Wilden Solicitors)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:28:24 +0000
Subject: CODICIL

MANAGING PARTNER
RICHARD L WILDEN & CO SOLICITORS
LONDON - UK.

NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late
Engr.David Fischer; I once again try to notify you as my earlier
letter returned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by
this same email address on the WILL. I wish to notify you that late
Engr.David Fischer made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the
sum of Twenty Million One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($20,100.000.00) to
you in the codicil and last testament to his WILL.

His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his life time.
Late Engr. David Fischer died on the 12th day of March, 2006 at the
age of 80 years, and his WILL is now ready for execution. According to
him this money is to support your humanitarian activities and to help
the poor and the needy in our society. Please if I reach you this time
as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to
enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time
through the email address below.

Email: rlwilden_esq@yahoo.co.uk

Yours in Service,
Richard L Wilden Qc.

--

Anti-fraud resources: