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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: Natalie Jubah <nataliejubah01@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:50:54 +0200
Subject: Greetings to you,

Greetings to you.

How are you doing today?hope you are very fine.I will really like to have a
good relationship with you.I promised you all that make a defined and
refined Love and i have a special reason why i decided to contact you. to
help me transfer my money to your country for business investment.
As like i said, my plans is that i want you to be my foreign partner to help
me in the process of withdrawing my late father's deposit money out from the
finance bank custody and transfer to your country

Firstly i will like to introduce myself. My name is Miss Natalie Jubah, 25
years old girl from Liberia, the daughter of Late Mr.Keith Jubah who was the
"Head of the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission."
My father was brutally killed late 2009 by unknown Gunmen because of his
patriotism and the fight against corruption endemic in the West Africa
nation subsequent my country bloody civil war. Please go through the
following web page to read more facts about the death of my father!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8338302.stm

My mother died her natural death on the year 2008 and i am the only child of
my parents.
I am compelled to contact you because of the maltreatment i am receiving
from my step mother since the death of my father. She wanted to kill me and
take away all my late father's treasury and properties.I wanted to go abroad
but she hide my international passport,my traveling document so that she can
achieve her evil desires against me.
And luckly to me she did not discover where i kept my father's file which
contains important document of the sum of us$4.5million (Four million,five
hundred thousand United States dollars that my father of blessed memory
deposited in finance bank custody at Dakar,Senegal.
I decided to travel to Senegal by road where i am presently staying on
asylum under the UNHCR, for the refuge of my life and also to make claim of
my father's deposit money in the bank.
I am contacting you to be my foreign partner for the assistance to help me
make transfer of my money to your country and the business investment under
your care and management.
This is the reason why i contact you for assistance and i promise to
compensate you with 10% of the amount for helping transfer my money to your
country and my living there under your care. The remaining amount will be as
my investment capital under your care and we will discuss the share of
annual income made from the investment as we proceed.
I am looking forward to receive your responses soon as possible for more
discussion on the matter.
I will give you further details as soon as i receive your response showing
your positive interest to assist me manage the good business investment of
my money in your country.

Yours friend,
Miss Natalie

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