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: "adam mike" <adammike@mail.mn>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:59:37 +0200
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETARY IMMEDIATEL


Dear Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund
transferredunder the cooperation of a new partner from paraguay.Presently
i'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.

Meanwhile,I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assisting me in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.Now contact my
secretary,his name is Mr Rapheal John and his email address is (
rapheal_john68@care2.com).and you can also call him with this number +229
93701015 ask him to send you the total $2.5M which I kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this
matter.

I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get
intouched with my secretary Mr Rapheal John and instruct him where to send
the amount to you.Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that
we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment,I
am very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new
partner are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your
behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in to uch with Mr Rapheal
John and he will send the amount to you without any delay.

With best regards
ADAM MIKE,

Anti-fraud resources: