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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: Philip Smith <philipwsmith1@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 08:21:20 +0000
Subject: From : Mr. Philip Smith


Dear Sir\Madam,

I,contact you on my presumed reliance, after going through a brief profile of you and i contacted to found out if you can be trusted believed we can make it big whereby you give your word that at the end of the transaction you will not betray us by being greed i would respectfully request that you keep the content of this mail confidential because of its nature and respect the integrity of this information. first of all i'll like to introduce myself and status.

I am Mr.Philip Smith working with International Inspection Of Chemical Weapons and i am contacting you to establish this relationship with you in benevolent spirit as to enhance immediate resolution to an opportunity rightly at hand therefore i would like to know more about your personality, to enable me invest with you in your country for our mutual benefit.

It was more like a dream when two of my colleagues intercepted(3)metallic trunk boxes at our duty post in the early hours of 20th September”2013 when two gentlemen were about to smuggle some valuables boxes suspected to be precious metals outside Syria. Subsequently, the owners whom according to our investigations were loyalists to the (president Dr Bashar Hafez al-Assad ) and they obviously stand no chance of defending the source of the content of these boxes and as a matter of fact, the owners escaped arrest and no where to be found. Though we did not officially declared this interception for obvious reasons.

To know the content of these boxes personally scanned the three(3)boxes and found out the contents are gold and raw cash in millions of united states 100 dollar bills and i will like us to discuss on how to move the boxes to your country for us to share the content involved 50/50 on the basis that am due for retirement will be leaving my office next coming month and am ready to go into partnership investment with you there with my own share from the proceed once i retired.

Therefore, as to enable us transfer these boxes, you are to give me your word that you will be capable to receive the cash and sell the gold in question there in abroad hence you are into business as i have no ideal about transaction of gold, i am only sending this proposal to ascertain your interest and once positive response is received from you, assuring me of your utmost cooperation, sincerity and confidentiality i will proceed to furnish you with all details and how we intend to carry out this risk free transaction without further delay and i shall count on your indulgence to keep this information very secret and confidential.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.

Regards
Mr.Philip Smith

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