joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

• About the 419 (Advance Fee) scam
• "Is that email a scam?" - Check it online here!
  
• Frequently asked Questions (419 FAQ)
• Phone numbers used by 419 scammers
  (+225 +229 +234 +27 +31 +32 +34 +44 other)
• Company names mentioned in 419 spam:
  1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Support our efforts to stop scams!
  
• How to report 419 spam to us
• What can you do when you receive 419 spam
  
  
• Spam archive, Daily index
  

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.

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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • skyfastcourier05@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "williams douglas" <douglaswilliams@mailbox.hu>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:04:39 +0100
Subject: CONTACT THE COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR PACKAGE


Goodday Sir/Madam,

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank
Draft of 1.2,000.000.00 Million United States Dollars, but I did not hear
from you since for a couple of weeks now. Then I went to the bank to confirm
if the draft has expired or getting near to expire and Dr. Eze the Director
Bank of Africa told me that before the draft willget to your hand that it
will expire. So I told him to cash the $1.2,000.000.00 Million UNITED STATES
DOLLARS to cash payment to avoid losing a 3Months Course and I will not come
back till ending of July 2008.

What you have to do now is to contact Sky Fast Courier as soon as possible
to know when they will deliver your Consignment to you before the expiring
date. For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance
premium.

The only money you will send to the Sky Fast Courier to deliver your
Consignment direct to your postal Address in your country is ($200.00 US)
Two Hundred United States Dollars only being Security Keeping Fee of the
FeDex ExPress CouRier so far.Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay any
other money except $200.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said
no because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of
demurrage.

Note: You have to contact Sky Fast Courier now for the delivery of your Bank
Draft with this information bellow;

Mr.Wilfred Johnson
Customer's care Dept,
Sky Fast Courier Company,Lagos,Nigeria.
E-mail:(skyfastcourier05@yahoo.es)

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address and Direct
telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask
them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over
there and know when it will get to your address. Let me repeat again try to
contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and
remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $200.00 US Dollars for
their immediate action.

Note :The Sky Fast Courier don't know the contents of the Box. I registered
it as a BOX of Africa cloths. The Sky Fast Courier did not know that the Box
contain money. i did this to avoid them delaying with the BOX . I am waiting
for your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Douglas Williams.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam