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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: "aisha gaddafi" <aishagadaf01@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 19:13:28 +0200 (SAST)
Subject: good day




Dearest One

I am Aisha El Gaddafi, one of the daughters of the embattled president of Libya,
born in 1976. I'm a Libyan mediator and military official, former UN Goodwill
Ambassador, and lawyer by profession. From Muammar al-Gaddafi second wife
Safia Farkash.

I am currently residing in one of the African Countries, unfortunately as a
refugee.
At the meantime, my family is the target of Western nations led by NATO who
wants to destroy my father at all costs. Our investments and bank accounts in
several countries are their targets to freeze.

I have been commissioned to contact an interested foreign investor/partner who
will be able to take absolute control of part of the vast cash available to private
account with my late brother who was killed by NATO air strike, for a possible
investment in your country. I just gave birth to a baby girl, just one day after
fleeing to Algeria from Libya.

If this transaction interest you, you don’t have to disclose it to anybody
because of
what is going with my entire family, if the united nation happens to know this
account, they will freezing it as they freeze others so keep this transaction to
yourself only until we finalize it. I want to transfer this money into your account
immediately for onward investment in your country because I don’t want the
united nation to know about this account.

I have the sum of US$ 30.500, 000.00 (Thirty Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) in a bank somewhere which I will disclose to you when I
receive your positive responds. Therefore if you are capable of running an
establishment and can maintain the high level of secrecy required in this project,
kindly respond with the following information for details of the project.

1. Your full names and address
2. Your private telephone and fax numbers
3. Your private email address
4. Age and profession.
5. scan international ID

Best Regard
Aisha El Gaddafi

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