joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "TERRY DONALD" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <terrydonald6895@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:26:20 -0400
Subject: RE. OUR BUSINESS TRANSACTION...

Hello Sir/Madam

am writing to you based on the recommendation of Almighty God Whom i so much believe in.Please, permit me to introduce myself. My name is Barr.Terry Donald, an Attorney At Law a personal attorney to Saif al-Islam, the second son of slained Libyan leader, Col. Mommar Gaddafi who was captured and killed in his home town, Sirte on October 20, 2011 in the rebellion going on in Libya.


After the death of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, it became imminent that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi being the next most recognised person after his father and currently on the run became a target of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for charges of crimes against humanity and his role in his late father government against the Libyan people, accused for allegedly torturing and killing civilians. At the moment, his fate is unreliable and being a close aid and his personal lawyer known, this has prompted me to leave the country and seek for ansylum in a naighboring country.

As a trusted aid and personal lawyer to the Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, I have been mandated to source for a reliable and trusted partner to secure a total sum of $63.8 million dollars on his behalf, funds which are from excess crude oil account, for safe keep and possible investment. This fund was pulled out in the heat of the crises rocking Libya and are safely deposited with a security vault company (not in Libya) which I will disclose to you in due course if we agree to work together as partners. This will enable him have some thing to fall back on if the inevitable happens having the believe that his finances may be question if caught.

Now that the regime of Col. Muammar Gaddafi has come to an end and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, his most recognised son is on the run, no one knows what will happen next. We are ready to let you have 30% of the total sum, 60 % for my client which will be kept by you pending when the situation stabilizes and for a possible investment venture while I will have 10% of the funds. I have all the paper works for you to proceed for the claims of the funds.


Please direct your response only through my email address for security reasons if you are interested in this transaction and should you decide not to participate, kindly keep all details of this email very confidential.




Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Barr.Terry Donald

Anti-fraud resources: