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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: "Loic" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <loictouray@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:02:07 +0100
Subject: PLEASE DON'T IGNORE THIS MAIL!!!

Dear Sir/ Ma


My name is Mr.Loic Touray from Gambia but works with the African Union. In view of my position as introduced and explained, I have this privileged information for you out of sympathy to save your fund from a big problem.

THE BACKGROUND OF THIS REASONS it may interest you to know that fund transfer irregularities and misconduct of huge sums of money out of Nigeria during the Military era has created suspicions on any movement of large amount, which is to be routed through Nigeria. For this reason, the Senate House under the leadership of Senator David MARK (Senate President) has formed a committee on Finance/Economic matters. This Committee was mandated to deliberate on all fund movement above $500,000.00 USD and also to recover all suspected funds. Consequently, our organization has been mandated to assist to monitor all fund movement out of Nigeria at the just concluded African Union meeting which was held in Ethiopia.

This letter is highly confidential. For this reason, you must not inform anybody about this letter or my contact with you, You must keep my relationship with you to be topped secret and highly confidential. If you can follow my advice and guidance, I will inform you on the only way out for the dispatch of your fund peacefully without any seizure by either your bank or the world Monitoring Agencies to know. But if you ignore my advice, your fund movement by bank transfer will surely hit a brick wall and you will keep spending money and time with energy and without any success until you forfeit the whole amount, which will be deferred at that time for a seizure. The September 11th 2001 bombing of the WTC in USA has compelled a strict monitoring and checks on all huge sums of money around the globe. For this reason, the security Network in USA has requested us here in Africa to investigate your fund, which has been routed for transfer according to the following:

1. The real source of your fund.
2. Your funds background on Foreign Bills of entries.

In pursuit of that, I discovered so many anomalies, which may create the security network for seizure. And your bank may start asking questions, which may even put the bank into a big problem by the American/European Security Network as a bank that keeps Terrorist fund. I am writing this letter out of sympathy and I am willing to assist you and avoid any danger to the successful conclusion. In order for me to help you, the following are my conditions:

1. You must keep my relationship with you highly secret/confidential.
2. You must not expose all the above information to anybody.
3. You must be willing to act fast on any information, directives and advice from me.

But if you expose this information, I will be compelled to do the right thing and you will have only yourself to blame by the time I give them the actual report on your fund. The method for you to receive this fund is by cash at your doorstep, which I or any other competent diplomat will deliver to you at your given address. Further details on this arrangement will be furnished to you as soon as I have received your approval to carry on. By then, I will be in a good position to explain to you more on how to carry out with the delivery mission.


Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Loic Touray

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