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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: "Capt. Miller Peterson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cm_millerpeterson1@rediffmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:35:12 -0700
Subject: Proposal



Hello,

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

MY name is Capt. Miller Peterson, an American army commander with 3rd Infantry Division of U.S. Leading coalition forces currently stationed in Iraq Baghdad, on war against terrorism/freedom of Iraqis. I got to contact you based on the urgent need of international partnership, because i have been redeploy to Europe to help beef up terrorist targeted states, mostly the United States and the European Union on the war against terrorism. I got your contact when I was searching for trust worthy person for partnership. Please bear with me, I would've personally loved to meet with you in person before now but due my present location and nature of my job, will not permit me to do so.

Without mincing words, I want to confide in you that I have in my possession the sum of ($18.5 million USD) Which I got from crude oil deal here in Iraq and I deposited this money with a Red Cross agent informing him that we are making contact for the real owner of the money. It is under my power to approve whoever comes forth for this money. But the issue here lies on trust; can i trust you with this deal? I want to invest the money in your country as soon as I am deployed into your country for a good business, anyway you will advise me on that since I am not a businessperson. I cannot move this money to the United States because I will be in Europe for about 3years, so I need someone I could trust. If you accept, I will transfer the money to Europe where you will be the beneficiary because I am a uniformed person and I cannot be parading such an amount so I need to present someone as the beneficiary. I am an American and an intelligence officer for that so I have a 100% aut
hentic means of transferring the

Please if you are interested in this transaction I will give you the complete details you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully. I decided to find someone that is real and not imaginary and that is why I went to a secured private site where I can be sure that the person is real. I believe I can trust you. Where we are now we can only communicate through our military communication facilities, which are secured so nobody can monitor our emails, then I can explain in details to you. I will only reach you through email, because our calls might be monitored, I just have to be sure whom I am dealing with.

If you are interested please send me your personal mobile number so I can call you for further enquiries when I am out of our military network. I am writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not reply to this email and please delete this message, if no response after 3days I will then search for someone else.

I will immensely give you 30% for your help and I hope I am been fair on this deal. Get back to me with your full information:

YOUR FULL NAME..............
YOUR FULL ADDRESS....................
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER..........

I wait for your contact details so we can go on. In less than 5days the money should have been noted on your account and I will come over for my money.

Best regards,
Capt. Miller Peterson


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