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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 Tina Ncube" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tinancube00@rediffmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:53:02 -0400
Subject: Urgent Reply

Goodday,

My name is Mrs Tina Ncube, a native of Zimbabwe and a widow with two daughters. My late husband Mr Raymond Ncube was a farmer.A Cocoa farmer who own many branches across countries like Ghana,Cote Voire,Senegal and europe before his sudden death in the year 2008.

He was very wealthy in cocoa farming to a point became envious of his fellow co-farmers associates who later on assassinated him out of jealousy. Since after the death of my husband i and my two daughters have suffered so much pains and humiliation from the hands of my late husband relatives. We have been deny of our right to his estate/properties simply because i did not bore him a male child.According to the tradition of the land, This means we are not entitle to any of his estate/properties only except i have a male child as the heir. And so we were ex-communicated from the family and left with nothing.

But, unknown to them i was able to posses one of the claim documents of fund which my husband deposited with the apex bank valued Twelve Million United States Dollars ($12,000,000,00) without their knowledge. So right now am using this opportunity to seek for your assistance to help me and my daughters claim this fund from the bank by applying as the beneficiary to the fund. I have all the necessary documents for this claim and shall provide it to you as we progress further. I will not be able to apply for this fund at the moment because am so afraid right now, I don't want any of my husband relatives to know about this fund. We are still afraid of them and again we don't want to allow my late husband's fellow cocoa farmers to know about our whereabout.

But my questions now are: (1). Can we trust you enough not to betray us?(2).Will you be very sincere and honest with us towards this claim till this fund gets into your account?(3). Will you help us gets a visa to your country as soon as this transaction is completed?


I am offering you 30% percent of this fund towards your assistance on this claim while the
rest 70% percent will be for me and my children to live on. At this junction i will like to
establish a good relationship with you, so i want you to give me the following details below:

1.Your full names. 2.Your nationality. 3.Your phone number. 4.Your occupation. 5.Your Age.

As soon as i hear from you,i shall give you more details and directives on this claim.Please get back to me on my private email address at (tinancube00@gmail.com)

Regards,
Mrs Tina Ncube.

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