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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: "Mamadu Dia" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Mamadoudia@mail.mn>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:10:45 -0800
Subject: Dear sir/Madam,

Dear sir/Madam,

May I crave your audience and apologize my use of internet to contact you which is due to the urgency of my message to you. My name is Mamadou Dia a citizen of Botswana. I was living in Bani Walid Libya before the Libyan uprising which eventually led to the overthrow and death of the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi. While in Libya, I was a business associate and confider of Mr. Saif Al-Islam Al-Gaddafi (Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s son) who was arrested on the 20th November 2011 with two of his Aids while trying to flee to Niger Republic by the National Transition Government who over threw his father’s government after months of uprising.

Before his arrest, we were able to move out of Libya some huge amount of money and some jewelries in different dimensions and kinds. In my charge was a vault containing a total of six million eight hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$6,800,000.00) which is still in my custody while I have relocated to Bangkok Thailand. It is in view of this that I am contacting you while proposing that we can team up and work closely together and embark on investing this amount of money into some lucrative business venture. You are to be rewarded handsomely (in percentage amount) if we can work closely to achieve this goal.

If this proposal appeals to you, kindly contact me as soon as possible using any of the below email addresses for detailed explanation while keeping every piece of this information secret because of the nature of the NTC on going investigations otherwise kindly disregard this piece of information and destroy this mail. However I am optimistic we can work together to help ourselves and families.


Hoping to hearing from you.

Faithfully

Mamadu Dia

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