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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: uk.000000000@googlemail.com
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:49:54 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Reply




I am contacting you in good faith be to my Virtual Assistance.

I made a request of your background information from your Email Provider;
please don not feel bad about this, because it's my first time contacting
you. What am about to get you into is what no man has done before, it's
all about wisdom, trust and courage. My name is Saeed Ahmed and i use to
be a merchant business man before in Dubai. If you must have read about
me, you will notice i have no helper around me, since my wife died, no
kids. The only friend i used to have collide with my relatives to set me
up with a female lady who i contacted HIV from, because i accuse them of
murdering my wife and stealing from me. Do not feel i am making this up,
presently; i am under medical treatment due to my diagnosed with
Esophageal cancer and HIV. According to my doctor; he said i have few
months to live. i am really afraid to die.

Now that i are about to die, I asked members of my family to close one of
my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity
organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to
themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be
contended with what I have left for them.

Just because i have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer and HIV those
not make me complete fool, i have my reason why i contacted you. There is
a reason i am giving you this responsibility, is because when i die, you
will be the one to own all my money sincerely, accept my gift. With this
little time i have to live; i want to use it to help people i don't know
before, if this should be the last thing i do on earth, i believe Our
Father in heaven will be pleased with me.

What i am about to tell you, as to be an inter personnel issue between you
and me. It is true that i have $18,000,000:00 deposits with a
Finance/Diplomatic Company Abroad. And my last wish is to give out
$13,000,000:00 to charity and offer you a gift $5,000,000:00 for your
service, support, assistance, time and trust. Do not worry about how the
money will get to you, and be optimistic.

You are to get back to me with your, name, phone number, address, country,
occupation, and what will you do with the money. Maybe i will email you
some of my recent photos i took at the hospital; i am looking forwarding
to your reply.

From
Mr. Saeed Ahmed

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