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"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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Daniel Johnson <dianne_blou@cantv.net>
Reply-To: dianne.blou@cantv.net
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:42:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:



Good day Dear Friend,

My name is Daniel Johnson. a citizen of Ivory Cost West African, the only child to late Mr. Blou Johnson, who died on 30 July, 2006 when he was travelling to Sudan with the Ugandan presidential helicopter which crashed at mountains in southern Sudan.

Before my Father's death he made my mother Mrs. Dianne Johnson to understand that he deposited some huge amount of Funds here in Ivory Cost West African, the sum of ($2.5 million u s dollars) which he Made from sales of gold and Oil business in Sudan Market and showed my mother all relevant documents of the fund. At hospital, he told my mother that we should look for a foreign partner or guardian in any country of her choice from far from here for safety of the Funds for me and her, where we will transfer this Funds for my education and the rest for investment like real estate management for our life safety and our future as he was started it for us.

We are in bad area which brought a sickness over my beloved Mother Named diagnosed with Esophageal cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, because of her condition recently our Doctor told her that she have only about a few months to live if care is not taking.

Why I contacted you, due to the agreement my late father had with the bank during deposit, I have been denied total access to the funds, the bank Manager told me precisely that the funds was deposited in a suspense fixed account with a clause attached to it for onward transfer into a foreign account. which the bank will follow the agreement written and signed by both (the bank and my Father)

Having known my Mothers condition, I decided to contact you now to do us a favour by standing as my foreign business partner and the beneficiary of the funds to enable the bank effect the transfer into your account there in your country. and bring me and my mother to your country for seeing if you have, or known a specific doctor who can save my mothers life as urgent.

We agreed to give you 25% of this total Funds as compensation of your effort after a successful transfer and you bring us to your country for the treatment, I ask you to keep this between you and me for the sake of this Funds Again the Safety of my mothers life.

Yours Sincerely
Daniel



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