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: "ben_umar@hotmail.com" <benumar32@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:56:21 -0700
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP


Dear,


Is my pleasure for writing you this letter, hope you are fine? I want to use
this opportunity to introduce myself well to you, I am Ben Umar,The son of a
late Chief Agyman Umar of D R CONGO, I came to know you in the course of my
search for a reliable and God fearing partner and I decide to contact you
because I believe you are a reputable person and i felt you can help us over
this confidential matter.I count on your integrity and honesty to be able to
handle this business. I have a Trunck box that contain $45.5million U.S
DOLLARS which is already in South Carolina.

The consignment is right now in the state, my Late father business partner
Mrs.Juliet Ottlete, who was suppose to receive this consignment containing
the money was asking for 50% which I and my mother did not agree on for any
reason,that is why we have to stop the delivery to her immediately.We are
ready to give you 20% from the total money because that
was the initial agreement we had with my late father partner, Mrs.Juliet
Ottlete before she later change her mind because of her greed which is the
reason why we had to stop the delivery to her.


The director of the shipping company just inform us yesterday that if we can
not provide a new business partner within this period of time,that the
consignment we be return back to GHANA, so we need you to stand as my family
trustee to receive the consignment in the states. If you are willing to help
us receive this consignment, all you just have to do is to contact the
shipping company here in Ghana so that they can give you instruction to
their agent holding the consignment in South Carolina.


If not for God they would have return the consignment back to Africa but God
has been helping us. Please reply my mail so that I can give you the contact
of the shipping company to discuss with them on the release of this
consignment to you and all you just have to do for us is to receive this
consignment and you open different Bank account in Europe and lodge the
money in ,thereafter you can help help to come over in your country seek us
asylum and buy us a house so that we can live freely without molestaions.
And that reminds me the shipping company does not know the content of the
box, because it was deposited as a family treasure.please reply to my
alternate email address:ben_umar@hotmail.com<address%3Aben_umar@hotmail.com>



Regards,
Ben Umar For the family.

Anti-fraud resources: