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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: "Mrs Mohd" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <maurydbeaulier@live.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:52:47 -0700
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP.

Dear Sir/Madam,
Kindly permit me to take five minutes of your time.
I am Mrs  Mohamed Mohd Salaheldin (Widow) and mother of a teenager, presently admited in the United Arab Emirates,my late husband was an oil magnet and gold dealer, unfortunately he died in a plane crash on 2 November 1999.
Before his death he deposited Thirty Five Million Dollars ($35M) in the legal currency of the United States of America and Eighty Kilograms (80Kg) of Gold with a security firm in the United Kingdom.
Link to prove my husband death: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/nov/02/egyptaircrash.usa4
This news was very sad to me and I was stricken by a heart attack and later its develop to stroke and since then I have being on a sick bed at Abu Dhabi (U.A.E), with almost no hope of surviving and there is nobody to give my beloved child the care and training he deserve; thus, I decided to seek for a reliable and trustworthy person to entrust these funds to and enable him take good care of my child.
In this regards; I solicit your honest and kindest assistance to put these funds under your custody for future investments into government approved project in your country and mostly to give my poor little child a new breath of life; because I might not survive the prevailing predicaments.
Note that, the funds are ready waiting for you for immediate collection; while all my hope rest on you. Kindly send me via email: maurydbeaulier@gmail.com your full contact details such as: name, telephone, address to enable prompt delivery of the funds to you without protest. Upon receipt of your mail, I shall give you all vital information to easy communication and to facilitate remittance of the funds under your custody.
Rest assured that, this transaction is 100% risk free as all documents to prove that these funds have no liens with any form of criminal activity will be given to you with certificate proving the clean source of origin of the funds to back up the claims in your favour. Consequently, this is simply a high yield financial project with mutual benefits as 40% of the total sum shall be given unto you; But you have to promise me that, you will not betray my trust once these funds will be under your care and you will surely ensure that my poor little child receive good education and guidance.
Kindest regards from your sister in agony,
Mrs  Mohamed Mohd Salaheldin

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