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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: "leo bangura" <leobangura17@me.by>
Reply-To: banguraleo@yahoo.in
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:35:37 +0000
Subject: urgent


Dear sir,

Is my pleasure to writing you this letter, hope you are fine? I want to use
this opportunity to introduce myself well to you; I am Leo Bangura, the son
of Late H.R. Bangura of Sierra Leone.

I write you in respect of our consignment fund that was moved into the USA
two weeks ago by the security company. This funds was deposited in two trunk
box and is presently in USA under a diplomatic care.

I want you to assist me and my mother to stand as our foreign beneficiary to
receive the fund over there in USA. The amount in this consignment is $16
million U.S.Dollars which my late father deposited under SECURITY COMPANY
for my mother and myself. Now, this consignment was moved to the USA two
weeks ago to our former beneficiary Mr. James K. Lamp Jr., who was suppose
to receive this consignment in USA on our behalf, but on arrival of the
consignment in USA, our beneficiary was demanding for 60% which was not our
earlier agreement so for that reason my mother and i did not agree to
continue and the delivery has to be stopped as we can no longer trust a man
like that. Now we need someone that will assist us to receive these
consignment as beneficiary in USA as all necessary documents are in our
possession.

We are prepared to give you 30% of the money for your assistance as that was
our initial agreement with with James K. Lamp Jr., before his change of mind
due to greed.

Waiting you for your anticipated co-operation, in your reply include your
telephone number, fax number and your passport and we shall respond back to
you details.

Best Regards,

Leo Bangura

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