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: Nita Negranza <nita.1974@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: nitanegranza8@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:27:30 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FROM NITA NEGRANZA.




Dear Friend,

 

       Greetings and compliments of the season to
you and your entire family?

 

 I want to use this opportunity to introduce
myself to you, and i believe that you will do the same in your next mail,

 

   I am Mrs. Nita Muhammad Negranza, from the
Philippines, Husband to Late Mr. Muhammad Negranza, who worked in Philippines
Embassy in Ivory Coast as one of the Philippines foreign representatives in our
embassy for nine years before his untimely death on the Month of 12th June
2007.

 

We
were married for 15 years without a child. Well, my late husband died after a
brief illness that lasted for only four days. I decided not to re-marry or get
a child outside my matrimonial home due to the love i have for my late husband.
On the month of October 2010, i fell sick and without urgent treatment and a
specialist from my country (Dr. Amando Lerma) Medical Officer "ANGELES
GARCIA MEDICAL CENTRE"(A.G.M.C.) hospital was handling my illness(Cancer
of the throat/heart) till today right here in Philippines which I will even
send to you my medical certificate that was issued to me by the hospital
management the day I was hospitalized on the 12th October 2010.

 

Before
the death of my late husband on the Month of 12th June 2007 where he was
hospitalized, he sincerely called me on his bed side and told me that he had a
sum of $5 Million American dollars, that he keep in a SECURITY  AND FINANCE COMPANY in Ivory Coast, before he
finally die which he highlighted me everything about the fund the way it was
deposited.

 

 According to my late husband explanation he
said that the money is concealed in a "Metallic Trunk Box" before it
was deposited with the SECURITY AND FINANCE COMPANY under arrangement as a
family treasure. This means that the Security Diplomatic Company does not know
the content of this box that was shipped from Philippine to their office in
Ivory Coast under diplomatic coverage instead of a bank due to the fact that he
was holding a political position then and because he have worked in Ivory Coast
as one of the Philippines foreign representatives in our embassy there before
he was returned back after some years ago to Philippines.

 

 Something interested me most before sending
you this email and i really want to chose you for this transaction though i
barely know who you are... but, i believe you will find it in your mind to help
me out of this present fate. I am willing to do anything to assist in the
liftment of this consignment to you only if you assure me of ensuring that a
charity home and home for HIV/AIDS will be built with part of the fund in my
late husband status and name.

 

  My main purpose of sending you this mail is
because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give you this
priority of shipping the box of money to any address that you think is very
secure and save in your country for onward lodgement into your account for the
purpose of future investment with your percentage of which we shall chat on
soon. I will send you the Authorization Certificate to call them in my next
mail which is the Certificate of deposit that they gave me on the very day when
the box of money was deposited under their company though I will reward you
with 30% of the entire fund($5 Million) after receipt of the consignment for
your financial assistance and endeavors while the balance 70% will be used for
the proposed charity establishment which will be named after my late husband on
the completion.

 

I
give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from you.

 

Best
Regards,

Nita
Negranza.

 

Anti-fraud resources: