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: wydevo <wydevo@besoindetoi.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:38:20 +0200
Subject: COOPERATION




Monsieur ,
J'ai le plaisir de m'introduire aupr&egrave;s de vous en
qualit&eacute; de juriste consultant Africain, en vue de vous
proposer un important projet d'investissement tous secteurs confondus
dans votre pays.En fait, j'ai &eacute;t&eacute; sollicit&eacute; par
une personnalit&eacute; africaine ayant travaill&eacute; au sein de
la soci&eacute;t&eacute; p&eacute;troli&egrave;re Groupe E L F au
Gabon qui, par mesure de prudence aimerait investir &agrave;
l'&eacute;tranger sous la couverture d'un important personnage ou
d'une structure en bonne et due forme.

L'objectif de la pr&eacute;sente est de pouvoir accueillir
favorablement la nouvelle et de pouvoir nous contacter pour plus de
d&eacute;tails au cours desquelle nous d&eacute;finirons ensemble, le
principe de fonctionnement de cette unit&eacute; et le mode
op&eacute;ratoire.

Restant toutefois dans l'attente de vos nouvelles, Je vous prie
Monsieur, entre temps de croire en l'assurance de mes
sentiments
respectueux.

Le Juriste Consultant

Me DE DRAVO Wylfrid

PS: veuillez m'envoyer la r&eacute;ponse sur : wydevo@ymail.com [1]

Links:
------
[1] mailto:wydevo@ymail.com

Anti-fraud resources: