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:
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • lucykkkk5@yahoo.co.jp (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <lucykkkk13@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: lucykkkk5@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:39:53 +0900 (JST)
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY.

permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me
and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I know this may sound strange to you ,
receiving a mail from an unknown person, but my condition has forced me to do that.

I'm Ms.Lucy Kono 19 years old,the only daughter of Late Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Kono my father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote
D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a
business trip,my mother died when i was a baby.

Before the death of my father on April. 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Two million Five hundred
thousand United State Dollars USD ($2.5million) deposited in a suspense account in one of
the big banks here in Abidjan.

He then strongly advised me not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from
his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of my
choice (outside our country,Cote D'Ivoire) that will assist me in the wise investment of the
money.I have since left the money in the bank with the view of my making use of it for
investment purposes after my education carrier here. But as you may be already aware by now, our country (Cote D' Ivoire) is presently at political crises. Rebels have already taken
over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards to capture the
commercial center of the country, Abidjan, where i am now.

For this ugly development in this country, i have now decided to take quick actions and have
this money transferred out of this country before it is too late for me in doing that. I now
want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real estate management or
hotel management. Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into your bank
account. (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept to stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, i need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist
me invest it. But if you still want a percentage, i am willing to offer you, 30 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Please tell me if
you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by you.As soon as i receive your concrete
assurance to assist me with my proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, i will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money
into your account as i want to come over to stay with you parmanently.

The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be
giving me information on when the transfer will be over.I shall also send my pictures to you
and shall also need yours own too. No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please i beg you to keep this highly secret for my safety, as i believe that those people that killed
my Daddy are still after me.

Please reply me through this my private email box: lucykkkk5@yahoo.co.jp or you can as well
call me through my number+22509428599 for more explaination regarding my situation here.

Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Ms.Lucy Kono Email:lucykkkk5@yahoo.co.jp
Tel+22509428599




---------------------------------
GANBARE! NIPPON! Chance to win 50,000 Yahoo! Points!

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam