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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: "Ali Terheuni." <terheuniali@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: "Ali Terheuni." <alith1945@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:48:41 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: VERY IMPERATIVE MESSAGE,




 
I will  like to develop business relations with you by establishing a trust agreement whereby you shall hold, manage, invest and distribute all assets received from me in trust and the proceeds there from, under the term of trust agreement.
 I am Ali Terheuni formally chief security aid of Gadhafi. Do to our ideological differences in the area of governance and the political agitation of the Libyan people, which i am in support, I left on political asylum to united states but later returned to Libya to work with the rebel for a new Libya though I was able to use my diplomatic status to move a box of gold and the sum of $60 Million which $35  was  use in funding the rebel group while $25million and the box of gold is presently deposited in a private security company for safe keeping, these boxes  were air freighted as family treasure and Red Cross photographic materials.
Thus so far, I will not be physically involved in the claim and management of this money, because of my present appointment in my country (Libya) by the National Transitional council (NTC) as the Minister of  oil by the NTC after the death and captured of Gadhafi. Hence I will do this by way of proxy to avoid being investigated.
     I am requesting your assistance to help claim this fund and box of gold and help secure investment programs available in your country. You should be aware that you and your associate will manage the complete process for I hope to ensure the safety of funds and consolidate the relationship and avoid being investigated prior to handing over the funds to you and your associates; I hope to arrange for preliminary meeting with you.
To ensure the success of this transaction it should be handled with utmost secrecy and confidentiality
    I await your urgent response on this
Best regard
Ali Terheuni.

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