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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: JULIUS HOLLIK <julius.hollik@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:21:57 -0700
Subject: MUMMY PLEASE HELP

Hello mummy,After I carefully prayed and asked God to help me get someone
trust worthy and God fearing , I wish to appeal for your help, I hope
you're fine,I am the only surviving son of Mr and Mrs RAYMOND HOLLIK,I'm a
refugee boy of 17yrs. Unfortunately, life is not that so good on my side. My
sufferings and ordeals began after my uncle masterminded
the killing and mysterious disappearance of my father in his business visit
to senegal . This painful lose of my father traumatizes me everyday, because
I'm living in difficulty. All the assets of my father has been taken away by
my wicked uncle,due to the fact that I'm not able to carry out any
actions against him because my life is largely threatened.Before the death
of my father and mother, One important thing I would like to tell you is
about my father,s deposit in a security company, before his death he
deposited two Metalic trunk box containing ($18.700,000Million United states
Dollars and 20KGS of GOLD )under the money inside the boxes, in Security
company which he disguised and declared the boxes
to contain family valuables instead of money, by this way the company does
not know the true content of the boxes.I have in my possesion the deposit
documents which the company gave to my late father when
he deposited the boxes with the security company. I really don't know what
to do.i thank GOD that he has send the AMERICAN EMBASSY to come and help me,
and They are the one who gave me your email id and you phone contact number
for me to call or send email to you, since am the one who can tell you all
about the two consignment boxes, This is because I have suffered a lot of
set backs as a result of incessant
political crisis here in Ghana. The death of my family actually brought
sorrow to my life.I am in a sincere desire of your assistance in this
regards.
Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded. Now permit me to ask
these few questions:-
1. Can you honestly and willingly help me?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you
after
the money is in your country?
4. Can you stand in as my father's foreign partner to claim the boxes from
the company? If you decide to positively help me, I will send you the
deposit document and the information's to contact the security company for
information about the boxes, Please Consider this and get back to me as soon
as possible.
Thank you so much and God bless you.
YOUR LOVE
JULIUS HOLLIK.

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