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: Mrs Jessica Fragiorgi <melissa.wooten32@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jessica.fragiorgi@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:20:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Mrs Jessica Fragiorgi.


From Mrs Jessica Fragiorgi.
 
I am Mrs Jessica Fragiorgi a widow to late Fragiorgi, I’m 61 years old,
I am a new Christian convert, suffering from long time cancer of the
breast, with all indications my condition is really deteriorating and
it is quite obvious that I would not live more than three months,
according to my doctors and in all indication regards to medical
analysis, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad
stage that no hope for me to be a living person again.
 
Some unknown persons murdered my late husband, and during the period
of our marriage we could not produce any child. My late husband was
very wealthy and after his death, I inherited all his business and
wealth.
 
The doctors has advised me that I may not live for more than three
months, so I now decided to give out this wealth, to contribute to the
development of charity which includes the less privileges and the
motherless children anywhere in the world.
 
I selected you after I prayed and fast for three weeks over, I am
willing to donate the sum of $6.5m U. S dollars, to the less
privileged. Please I want you to note that fund is somewhere and upon
my instruction, my attorney will be your guide.
 
Lastly, I honestly pray that this money when transferred will be used
for the said purpose even though I am late then, because I have come
to find out that wealth acquisition without Christ is vanity and I
made the promise to God that the fund will be use to build his temple.
May the grace of our lord Jesus the love of God and the fellowship of
God be with you and your family.

All correspondence must be by strictly by email due to the condition
of my health.
 
I await urgent reply.
 
God bless you.

Mrs Jessica Fragiorgi



Anti-fraud resources: