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: "Prince Sadiq Ibrahim" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <luthairecruitmentjobs9@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:31:52 -0700
Subject: !!! BUYERS NEEDED!!!

Dear Sir,

I am Prince Sadiq Ibrahim, a spokesman of a Royal Family in Akwatia, a gold producing Community in the Eastern Region of Ghana, which is the largest gold producing country in West Africa.

I am writing to ascertain your interest and capability of buying or marketing Alluvial Gold Dust, which we presently have.

We have after a long court case (delayed justice) won our right over a Gold Concession and have been in the gold mining business for the past 15 months. We have a quantity of 250kgs of Alluvial Gold Dust of 23+ Carats purity and 100 kgs of Gold Bars, selling at a very reasonable price. We need a direct buyer abroad who can buy the commodity and possibly go into partnership agreement with us, as to front us and also acquire the necessary modern mining equipments to improve our mining capacity and skills that will take us to the next level.

Also, we have direct contact with Diamond miners within our community whereby we can get diamonds in reasonable quantity if you are interested.

Brief Ghana History For Your Enlightenment.
Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togo-land trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of Ghana's third constitution in 1981 and a ban on political parties. A new constitution, restoring multiparty politics, was approved in 1992. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, head of state since 1981, won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996, but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR, who defeated then Vice President John ATTA-MILLS in a free and fair election and ruled as the President of Ghana and Chairman of "ECOWAS" till the 7th of January 2009 when John Evans Atta-Mills was sworn inn as Presindent folowing his victory in the December 2008 general ellection.

Brief About Akwatia (my town)
Akwatia is a small town located in the Kwaebibirem District, Ghana (Eastern Region). Diamonds were first discovered along the Birim River, in an area nineteen miles northwest of Akwatia, in 1919. Over 100 million carats of diamonds have been recovered from the area by the government before gold was later discovered in my very location of the town. My town is a place where lucky farmers sometimes finds nugget gold and diamonds in the ground during farming, mostly after major rain falls.

The land of my entire community according to geological analysis has large deposit of gold/diamond and it is the only part of Ghana where you get 23+-karat purity of gold, others are below. Our advantage is that, my family rules over majority of the land, therefore we don't operate on just one site. Another advantage is that, you find more of the commodity along the River Birim and we own majority of the land along the river (which is what brought about the dispute between the government and my family). We also have the right or the power to negotiate and own any land of our choice within our community.

My grand parents were un-educated and therefore could not do what we are about to do now. Otherwise, we would be singing a different song by now. Nevertheless, it is not late for us if you are truly serious and keep to your words and we are able to start now. It is an opportunity that will last almost forever if we put in the right investment structures. We are in the verge to take our community to the next level. We want our people to enjoy from the endowment of our lands.

Advice
It is imperative that our partner must visit Ghana, so we are ready to receive you here, granting you the opportunity to take a tour on our mining site for your physical examination and assessment of the potentials of our lands. Seeing is believing!

I am capable of arranging your visas directly from here without your physical presence in the Ghana embassy out there. Driver and a delegate will receive you at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra, and check you into a befitting hotel around the safest neighbourhood within the airport area, where we shall have our first meeting before proceeding to the village (mining site) the next day.

Yours truly,

Prince Sadiq Ibrahim

Anti-fraud resources: