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: "Allen Large" <maire.nichoilm@spd.dcu.ie>
Reply-To: allan.larges@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:27:18 +0000
Subject: Donation!!

Dear Friend,

My greetings to you and your family, I hope this communication meet you well
as you will be curious to know why/how I selected you to receive the cash
sum of $950,000 USD, our information below is 100% genuine, please see the
link below:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/violet-large-gave-away-her-lottery-windfall/article2119137/

Cause to the information in our article above, We have prayed and searched
over the Internet for assistance on our decision to donate $950,000 USD to
you because i saw your profile on yahoo published email owners list and picked
you, we have already finalized our decision to donate the sum of $950,000
USD to you as part of our charity project to improve the lot of five (5)
lucky individuals all over the world from our $11.3 million Jackpot Lottery
winning fund. Violet my wife and i have decided to make sure this is put
on the Internet for the world to see before she died, my wife had cancer
and she died last year July 16 at colchester regional hospital in truro,
my wife just didn't die but she was a loving and caring wife and I miss her
so much and this is why I have decided to do one thing i promised her forever.
as you could see from the webpage above, am not getting any younger and you
can imagine having no kids at this age. Although we won this lottery funds
last two years July 2010 this money has been in my possession and we have
helped some charity organizations from our winnings.

After taken care of the needs of our immediate family members and friends,
we both decided on donating the remaining of the $11 million to other individuals
around the world in need, the local fire department, the red cross, haiti,
hospitals in truro where violet underwent her cancer treatment, and some
other organizations in asia and europe that fight cancer, alzheimer's and
diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with our financial firm of this
charity donation. we have kept just 2% of the entire lottery sum to our self.

For me to facilitate the disbursement process of the funds ($950,000 USD)
which we have donated solely to you, you are to send us your full names for
payment, your contact address and your personal telephone number, so that
i can forward your payment information to you. I am hoping that you will
be able to use the money prudently and judiciously over there in your locality.
please you have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in
your region, help as many people you can help once you have this money in
your personal account because that is our only objective of donating this
money to you.

I like to assure you of the authenticity of this services as we will not
be involved in any illegal act and will never be, we only want to feel good
by helping people at this beginning of the year, this is the only thing that
makes my wife happy even now that she is not here with me anymore, we have
too much to give away as I only have few years left on earth. I will advise
as you as the prospective lucky winners to be calm not to loose this great
opportunity which millions of people are trying to entangled but the chances
just couldn?t come for them because a lot of people are out there to discourage
them as they don't know how it works, and have never seen such before

Reply me if you have received this message and provide me with your

Full Name:
Current Address:
Personal Tel:

to enable me provide you the additional information for your payment at once,
we are indeed grateful.

God bless you
Violet and Allen Large.


Anti-fraud resources: