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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: Audrey Serge Alain <sergealain_aud@hotmail.fr>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:13:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Good Morning From Audrey




 
How are you today? I hope you and the family are doing fine over there? If so glory be to God almighty for that.

May the blessings of the lord God be with you and your families.I believe i am safe with you by sending you this email and i give thanks to God almighty for this great opportunity for me to reach with you, i want you to understand and consider my main purpose of writing you this letter, i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important issue having gone through your profile, please i want you to know that i trusted you that is why i contacted you and also that is why i am disclosing this secret to you, i also want you to know that i am in bad pains right now and am facing so much difficulties now in my life ever since the death of my late adopted father. I am AUDREY SERGE ALAIN 23years old female, adopted daughter of Late MR. SERGE ALAIN. I lost my adopted mother some years ago, i lost my adopted father just 6months ago. My late adopted father was into Oil and Gas Production before his death. I need your assistance to secure my inheritance fund which
i inherited from my late adopted father the sum of Six Million United States Dollars which he willed to me before his death as his adopted daughter. What i need from you is your assistance to transfer this fund that my late adopted father MR.SERGE ALAIN deposited with a Bank here where we were residing before his death and to invest it for me in your country while I further my education when i join you over there in your country because the brothers and sisters of my Late adopted father are not happy about the money i inherited from the family due to religion differences, ever since the death of my late father they have been maltreating me bad over here and they said to me that i am an adopted child that i am not know in the family, therefore due to the maltreating they are giving to me over here i decided to search for a trusted and God fearing person who can assist me in claiming my inheritance fund from the bank here to your foreign bank account so
that i can relocate from here and travel down to your country and stay with you when the money is in your possesion,i got your contact and i decided to contact you because i see you as a trust worlthy and God fearing person, now i need your assistance to transfer the fund out of this country as fast as possible. I will give you more details when I hear from you also i will explain more better to you when i receive your respond to my mail confirming your willingness to assist me in transfering the fund. We will discuss more when I hear from you.

God bless you as i wait for your kind response.
Yours Faithfully
Audrey Serge Alain

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