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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: "henryvaye3 Gazeta.pl" <henryvaye3@gazeta.pl>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 22:32:27 +0000
Subject: URGENT PROPOSAL


From Mr. Henry Adams Vaye
Liberia-West Africa

Good day,

I must say it my pleasure to send you this email, please pardon me if I have
intruded on your privacy, how are you doing ?, I hope you are doing fine ?
If so glory be to God.My name is Henry Adams Vaye the son of the Deputy
Minister of Public Works, Mr. Isaac Nuhan Vaye of Liberia in West Africa.

My father was falsely accused of plotting to remove the then President of
Liberia (Charles Taylor) from office. Without trial, Charles Taylor killed
him. You can verify this from your country. You can also check in some of
the international newspapers posted in the web sites below:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-15-liberia_x.htm

Before my father was killed, he moved out the sum of US$12.5m (Twelve
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) and deposited it in
trunk box with a Security Company in Ghana west Africa. According to my
father he did not disclose the content of the deposit to the security
company because the security company does not accept deposit of cash and
also my father can not take the money to bank because he can not explain to
the bank the sources of the money so he decided to keep the money in a
sealed trunk box with a security company here in Ghana and the content of
the box was declared as family artifact at the time of the deposit,so the
security company does not know the real content of this deposit.

All that is needed is for you to stand as my late fathers oversea partner to
claim the consignment from the security company. The cash was carefully
packaged in a trunk box and deposited as Artifacts with the Security
Company. We need you receive this deposit on our behalf because we do not
want people here to have idea about such deposit because if they know it
will be problem for us and this money is the only thing we have now.

The security company will release and deliver this package to you through a
secured means ,we only need your consent so that we can send all the
deposit documents to you.

We have agreed to give you 30% of the total sum for your assistance, 75% for
my family to invest in your country and a further 5% will be mapped out for
any expenses that we may incurred in the process .We need your full support
and co-operation for the success of this . We plead with you to treat this
issue confidential and urgent because it demands secrecy.

Please reply to my email: henry.vaye@live.com

Sincerely yours
Henry Adams Vaye.

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