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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: Elizabeth Tinambacan <tinamba02@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:45:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello


Dearest one,































My name is  Mrs. Elizabeth D.Tinambacan,The wife of Rev. Jemias
Tinambacan who was the Deputy Secretary General of Bayan Muna
party-list group in Southern Tagalog.who was recently attackead and
killed in philippine on the 27 may 2006.















 















Before my late husband was killed,I inherited the sum total of
($14,000.000 USD. Fourteen Million USDollars) from some cocoa business
import we made with my late husband, this money which i put in a
metallic trunk box and deposited it in a security and finance company
in abroad. This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a
family treasure. This means that the security company does not know the
content of this trunk box. Since the death of my late husband,the
philippine government has blocked me and my late husband account and
also my late husband family has succeed in collecting from me all the
properties of my late husband.trying to leave me with nothing based on
there personal intrest.















I am contacting you because I want you to help me in securing the money
in the vault by paying only the courier diplomatic shipment charges to
your country for the future of our children.since my late husband
family made it impossible for me to move out of the house and they are
monitoring my room phone call through the house extentions.I hope to
trust you as who will not sit on this money when you claim it.i made up
my mind to give you 15% of the total money for your help ,after you
have secured the box for my daughter's future.















 















Hopping to hear from you.















 















Elizabeth D. Tinambacan















Reply to tinamba2010@cantv.net



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