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: "Ms Leah Pena Geri" <leahpenageri@gmail.com>
Reply-To: leahpena@net.hr
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:21:18 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Good Day




Hello Dear,

I am Mrs. Leah Pena Geri from Republic of Venezuela Married to Mr. Andrew Geri from England UK,
I’m a house wife while My Husband works with shell oil company in Iraq unfortunately for him he
die in bombe accident in years of 2007, Now” I get a letter in our mailbox last week from one Apex
security company in Holland, that I should come to their office with my son and my husband brother
to collect what’s belongs to our family.

So since then I keep on communicating with the manger Apex Security Company for him to tell me the
contents of the family belongs, he now open up to me, that My Late husband deposited the
$5.5milloins with three building document, all this properties my husband deposited he did not
tell me but he used our son name Frank Geri and his brother name Fredrick Geri as next of kin.

Now’ the problem we have in their family is the brother because since after the death of my
husband he treated us badly and he collected every things that belongs to my husband here in Uk,
our address 146 Wardown Crescent, Luton, LU2, United Kingdom, so dear if I tell Fredrick Geri
about this new information he will definitely sized all the money and properties because my son is
still young 7 years old now, so he knows nothing and I have no money to travel to Holland or
involved lawyer to backup the money and properties for us.

That’s reason I contact you is to help us to receive the money and three building document, all
the document Apex security company send to us is with me, so I want to present you as my husband
brother to receive the money with orders things included, I promise you after recovering the
money, I will give you 20% of the total money.

Please if you are willing to help us over this issue, reply with your details: Name / country /
contact address / phone number, once I receive this information from you, I will go to court to do
some pepper works on it, to changes your name in the document before sending it to Apex security
company in Holland.

Yours sincerely
Ms Leah Pena Geri

Anti-fraud resources: