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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. Michelle Coulibaly" <michelle.coulibaly@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:51:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Mrs. Michelle Coulibaly


Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for taking out time to read this message. I am Mrs. Michelle Coulibaly from Cote d'Ivoire, the wife of the late Mr. Turey coulibaly a former special assistance to Mr. Alassanne  Ouattara the internally acclaimed winner of the just concluded Election in our country  who was recently killed by soldiers loyal to the illegal and the Defiant president Laurent Gbagbo.

I, my son and daughter crossed to Accra-Ghana with help of the united nation personnel officers working in our country.  

The last hope of me and my family is left the one big trunk box containing the sum of $21,000,000.00 (Twenty One Million U.S. Dollars) and 100kg of alluvial gold dust.  On arriving Ghana, I and my son deposited the Trunk box with a Finance Security Company for safe-keeping.  The Finance security records the contents as family valuables. They do not know the actual contents of the box.

It may interest you to know that this money came from the sales and proceeds of cocoa, gold and diamonds because my late husband was a big merchant in solid minerals before he met his untimely death.

All the documents to prove the deposit of this trunk with the Security Company are with my son, Mr. Johnson Coulibaly.

Please I am writing to seek your assistance as an honest and transparent person to stand and accept and transfer this money into your bank account as my late husband’s foreign partner and my co-beneficiary of this fund. Once the money hits into your bank account, me, my son and daughter will prepare to travel to you to your country to invest the money and also give my children a new life in your country.

 For your assistance, I will give you 40% of the money, 10% will be set aside for all the local and international expenses we may inure in the course of transferring the money.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Mrs. Michelle Coulibaly


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