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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: Mercy Jones <mercyjones001@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: mercyjones01@cantv.net
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:32:38 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dearest One,


Dearest One,

I pray that this message meet you in good state of health and may almighty be with you and your family .

Mysteries has gone in my life. Life has become restless for me in this western part of Africa. 29th September 2004 later in the night the murders come without a pity without a mercy they kill my father in front of me.

My father was a wealthy merchant.The trouble began early last year when my father's associates started suspecting that my father is not giving proper accounts of all the tons of cocoa being cultivated by local farmers in some villages. This mistrust deepens between Jul-Aug 2004 when they discovered a very big some of money my father deposited with one of leading Bank here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.

As a result of this discovery and the enviness of the money ,he was killed by his associates.Before this, he revealed to me the reasons of his being hatred.He directed me where to get the documents of the said deposit, he told me that he enrolled my name as his next of kin for the deposit, being the only child. He advised me that I should not stay in the country because his enemies might equally kill me to reap all his wealth hence my mother died five years ago of cancer.

He instructed me that if he dies, that I should look for a foreign partner who will help me to transfer the money into the person's account and the person will help me to invest the money in his or her country. My father finally died on 29th of September and since then I was out of school and went into hiding because of my father's associates.

All the relevant documents of the $8.5 (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars) that was deposited in a security company are intact with me now.

My name is Mercy Jones, I am 19yrs old and a student with my brother Paul Jones 17 year old . Please I would require your urgent assistance so that I can move out from here before they kill me as they are tracing my hide out.I agreed to give you 20% of this money ,if you can help me bring out this fund from the Bank and transfer this money into your account for onward investment in your country.


PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS.


1)TO SERVE AS THE GUARDIAN OF THIS FUND,


2)TO PROVIDE A BANK ACCOUNT WHERE THIS MONEY WOULD
BETRANSFERRED .


3)TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR ME AND MY BROTHER PAUL TO COME OVER TO YOUR COUNTRY AFTER THIS MONEY IS TRANSFERRED TO COMPLETE OUR STUDIES AND ALSO LOOK FOR A GOOD VENTURE WHERE THIS MONEY WILL BE INVESTED.

Please contact me immediately with my E-mail address and include your telephone and Fax numbers in your response to enable me send you all necessary details as regards to the procedure of securing the fund out from the Bank and transferring the fund to your end account.
Please be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free.
I'm waiting for your urgent reply .


Best regards,
Mercy & Paul Jones




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