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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: "GREGORY NGAJI" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <greg01@gregdjuy.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 21:27:06 -0500
Subject: CONFIRM PLEASE

From: SENATOR GREGORY NGAJI
 
My Dear Friend,
 
I am a former senator from Cross River Central Federal Constituency.
My reason of contacting you is that there is a sum of 26.5million (Twenty Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Of American Dollars Only), which I and my committee members discovered in a financial & security trust firm last 7 years ago and it is now under my custody.
 
I refused to hand this particular fund over to my government and changed the deposit documents to my name because we discovered a lot of other looted funds which we brought back with the assistance of some foreign heads of states and handed over to the past President which is suppose to be in the National Treasury, but was not accounted for and nothing was said by the past president concerning the brought back looted funds to the total generality of the Nigerian citizens.
 
I then waited to hear and see the intentions of the past president for the recovered funds, but to my utterly surprise and dismay, I found out then that our president did not have a any intention of properly handing these funds back to the National Treasury but has already converted the funds for his personal use.
 
As an honorable member of the house, I made frantic efforts to move motions on the matter in the house, but I was always sidelined in the minority voice as it was obvious that the president had all our notable and respectable members in his payroll, even our then Honorable Speaker.
 
This was why I decided to Chang information of this particular recovered fund and still leave it abroad with the Security Firm with plan of finding a responsible personality whom I can trust to handle this cash for a possible professional investment as my own gain since nobody else knows or have any record of this recovered fund.
 
I want you now to tell me if you can be able to receive this fund and also locate a very good business, which this $26.5 million can be, invested in. Also can I trust you to handle this cash? Note that you are going to be my trusted partner in this investment and I will draw agreement for the percentage of the investment dividends for both parties involved.
 
Let me hear from you as soon as you receive this message.
 
Thanks and remain blessed.
 
Yours sincerely
 

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