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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: "MR. BENJAMIN VUSI" <11112@tulsaemail.com>
Reply-To: joekhumalo@msn.com
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:07:20 +0200
Subject: A BUSINESS PROPOSAL////


Sir/Madam

I am manager of one of the leading bank in South Africa in my bank we

discovered an abandoned large sum of money (US$14.7M) belonging to one

of our Foreign Customer Mr. Morris Thompson an American Nationality, a

businessman, who involved in air crash along with his family. You can

confirm from the website below

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/



I am seeking for your Co-operation to front you as the beneficiary of the

funds. No beneficiary, No other person knows about these funds neither

operate this account since his death. The Strategy is to use our influence

as managers of the bank to approve you as the beneficiary and release the

funds over to you. So if you are interested please reply me.

Regards,

Mr. Benjamin Vusi

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