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: "Full Offshore Network In Asia Region" <kokoways03@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:51:42 +0530
Subject: BRODA ME, LETS US THANK PAPA GOD FOR WHAT HE HAS PROMISED TO DO FOR US DIS YR, COS PAPA GOD DON SIGN AM SAY WE GO HAMMER DIS YR OOOOOOOOOOOOO


*Dear bros,
My name is Jeff Okoh Adebayo from Agbor in Delta State from Nigeria but base
in India I got your mail thru the formant you sent to my box so I decided to
write and tell you that am a guy man live in Asia in case if you have any
Asia job India Thailand,pakistan,nepal, malaysia,bangladish,saudi arabia,
iran, dubai, etc job let me work with you and make out money. Please I will
like to hear from you and let us know each other and make things easy.plz
reply me with this is i.d (**jeff_okohbayo@yahoo.com*<jeff_okohbayo@yahoo.com>
*)*
*Wish you good luck in all your jobs
Till I hear from you
NOTE
I HAVE PEOPLE IN LAGOS,IN BENIN CITY, AND IN OWERRI IN IMO STATE,DARKA IN
SENEGAL, PORTNOVO IN CONTONU IN BENIN REPUBLIC, HAARLEM, IN NETHERLAND,
VINNEA IN AUSTRA, MADRID IN SPAIN, THAT U CAN SEE BEFORE U GIVE ME JOBS
THANKS AND GOD BLESS

*

Anti-fraud resources: