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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: "Mrs Shawnnon Long" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <MrsShawnnonMLong@aol.fr>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:27:34 -0000
Subject: Ässistance Needed,,,

Hello Dear,

I am Mrs Shawnnon Long,I am from (Auckland) New Zealand, but based in Iceland since eight years ago as a business woman dealing with gold exportation. i have been surffering from ovarian cancer disease and the doctor says that i have just two months to leave.Now that i am about to end the race like this,without any family members and no child.

I was married for twenty four years without a child.My husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited all the sum of (Six Million US DOLLARS ) with a Security Company in Madrid Spain and this fund is presently with the security firm awaiting my disbursement as beneficiary and the management just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so long with attract a demurrage fees as the security fees paid by me has expired or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get it confisticated.

So instead of getting it confiscated i rather have someone whom i can trust to receive the funds and utilize it according to my wishes. And the best part of it is, the security company told me in the letter that they can have the consignment funds delivered to my approved next of kin in his house if within Spain or transferred to his bank account and if outside Spain then transferred to his or her bank account.

since, my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next two months due to cancer problem. It is my last wish to see that this money is invested/donated to any organisation/buisness of your choice and distributed each year among the charity organization,E.g the poor homes, the motherless babies home where i came from, the deaf homes, and churches etc.l took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money. I kept this deposit secret till date, this is why I am taking this decision. I don't think i will need any telephone communication in this regard because of the confidentiality of this transfer. Upon your reply I shall give you the contact of the security firm.

I will also issue a letter of authorization to the security House that will prove you the present beneficiary of this money.Nowadays there are so much scams going on in the internet and it is difficult to trust but i don’t know why the Holy spirit still approved me to email you about this out of few email addresses i have from the internet, yours was the only one that was approved for me to contact.

Reply to my very confidential email address {mrslongshawnnon@gmail.com}

Await your responds and God bless you.
Mrs Shawnnon Long

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