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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: Miss.Leyna Schwarz <postmaster@praxis-jeb.de>
Reply-To: leynaschwarz@yahoo.cn
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:57:08 +0200
Subject: My name is Miss Leyna Schwarz. Read Mail And Respond

Dearest one,



My name is Miss Leyna Schwarz, 19yrs of Age, a nationality of Germany but was schooling in the United States Of America.



I am the only child/daughter of late Mr/Mrs. Wilfred Schwarz who owns one of the gold mining company companies in Ghana.





My late mother is a Ghanian and that was why my father invested here in Ghana.
My father was killed by food poisoning, he died few hours upon his arrival from a meeting that was held at Ashante region of Ghana where he wanted establish another company. Before my father gave up his last breath, he disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of ($6.5 Million Dollars) in one of the banks in Accra in agreement with the bank that the money will be transferred only to his investment partner in abroad for an investment purposes, and he also has 125kg of Gold kept in one finance/security firm also in Accra,Ghana which he intended to ship to abroad for a better buyer under the authorized license of his (late father's) company.Few weeks after the death of my father,his company and other commercial and private properties was illegally claimed by his friends who was working with my father, now i am left with nothing except the above mentioned two inheritance and this is because they don't have any idea of the deposited money and gold.






Now,I am contacting you to assist me to process the transfer of the money to your country and to ship the gold to your country and get a nice buyer over there, so that I can relocate to your country and join you to continue my education,for my safety and for the investment of the whole cash in a lucrative business.
If you are willing to assist me in this great venture, i will introduce you to the bank as my late father's foreign investment
partner and as my legal trustee and investor of the funds in overseas, whom my late father intended to transfer the money to his account before his sudden death occurred. Right now,I am here in Accra, Ghana and i have held several meetings with the bank officials in regards to the transfer procedures and i will give you the full details and the directives on how to be in direct contact with the bank upon my receipt of your positive response to this mail.





Please your urgent response is needed so that i will be out of here with my inheritance before it's too late as i will not like to loose them or loose my life, please confirm your position immediately after reading this letter.




I will give you the 25% of the total money as a compensation for your noble assistance.
We shall discuss on how to invest the money upon my arrival in your country,though i have real estate management in mind.





Lovely Yours,
Miss.Leyna Schwarz.

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