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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: Sussan Karim <sussankarim@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <sussankarim02@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:07:32 +0000
Subject: HELP ME


My Dear Honest One,






It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration
which I don't know how you will feel it. My name is Miss
Sussan Karim The only Daughter of late Joseph Karim,from
Sierra-Leone (I am 19years of age. My father was former
Director of finance Sierra-Leone diamond,Gold and mining
corporation, in Free Town,the economic capital of Sierra Leon
before his untimely death.After his business trip,My father
got an accident with my mother of which my mother died
instantly but my father died five days after in a private
hospital in our country. On that faithful afternoon, I didnt
know that my father was going to leave me after I had earlier
lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if
he knew he was going to die.

My father called me and
told me that he deposited the sum of Nine Million,United State
Dollars. USD ($9,000.000.00) left in fixed/ suspense account
in one of the prime bank in LOME the economic capital of
TOGO.That the money was meant for his diamond and Gold company
he wanted to establish in Tunisia, according to my father he
deposited the money in suspence account using my name as the
next of kin. My reason to contact you is to asssit me to
transfer the fund into your account because the bank made an
agreemet with my father I can not access to this fund only if
I can having an foreign partner from oversee to help me
transfer the money and invest it. I wait your respond for more
detail's, I have the documents with me I will forward it to
you as soon as I hear from you.







I am waiting for your urgnt respond.

Miss. Sussan
Karim,

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