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: "End Of Year Australia Lottery" <australlotto@gtu.ge>
Reply-To: alex_james4747@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:55:13 +0400
Subject: Winning Notification! ! !

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 07 October,
2009 from the Australian International Lottery programmer. This is fully
based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from
some site.

Your email address was attached to ticket number; 0756490902 serial number
774113002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42bonus
number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You are
hereby had been approved a lump sum pay of 500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
GREAT BRITISH POUNDS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total
cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.

Kindly contact our claims agent with your personal informations for the
processing of your winning prize

Mr.Alex James
Claims Unit Department {Officer Incharge}
email alex_james4747@yahoo.com

Best Regards
Carol Sweet (co-ordinators)

Anti-fraud resources: