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: Sonia Cisse <sonia_3003cisse2000@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: soniacisse56@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:08:08 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Message From Sonia Cisse

Hello my Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country.

There is this amount of nine million U.S dollars($9, 000,000.00) which my late Father kept for me with a security company here in abidjan before his death. Thought he deposited it as family valuable for security reason, and that made the security company not to know the contents of the parcel he
deposited with them.

I have decided to invest these money anywhere safe enough outside our Country for security and political reasons. Therefore, I want you to help me to transfer these fund from here into your country for investment purposes on these areas were tax will not be much.

If you can be of an assistance to me, i will be pleased to offer to you 15% of the total fund.

I await your soonest response.
Respectfully yours,
Miss Sonia Cisse.



---------------------------------
Power up the Internet with Yahoo! Toolbar.

Anti-fraud resources: