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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: =?utf-8?B?b3Vww7k=?= <danbaca@voila.fr>
Reply-To: danrawaa7@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:02:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Please I Need Your Urgent Assistance




Please I Need Your Urgent Assistance



A random draw of emails was made and your e-mail address was picked as the beneficiary of (€4.8Million) so send to me your Name: Occupation: Nationality and Mobile number:



Now the reason why I have contacted you is this; the bank's management is now anxious to know who owns this account that has this fund (€4.8Million) because the bank has benefited and made lot of profits from this fund for almost six years now. I need a trustworthy and honest foreign partner that I will present to the bank as the owner of the account having this said fund (€4.8Million).



This is how we are going to do it, you will have to send your personal information’s to me which I will have to program as the owner of the fund (€4.8Million) in our Bank's Computerized Data-base Processing Financial Deposit, then later you will write to apologize to the management of the bank and thereafter instruct the bank to transfer the fund to you through the Automated Transferred Money (ATM) Visa Card Account bearing your name.



Danbaba Rawaa

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