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: "Mr Michael Frank" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <michael.frank3662@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:22:39 +0300
Subject: Business Proposal

Good day,

My name is Michael Frank from the USA. I have carefully gone through your business profile and I strongly believe you have capacity to do this business with me. I have a serving minister in Africa who I have been working with now for 5 years. There is an amount of money which he want to move out and he has decided to give it as a contract supply. I want you as a dealer to close this business with me.

Euro 65,000,000 is involve and I assure you that I will handle everything for this money to be transferred into your account. you will take 30%, I will take 20% and we shall keep 50% for the minister. The only money you will spend in this business is Euro 13,500 which shall cover the registration of your company in the country from where the money will move out from and other minor expenses. First you will spend Euro 6000 and upon the approval of the fund transfer you will send the balance

We can close this business within 14 working day and get the money transferred. If you are interested write me back so that I can give you more information.
I look forward to hear from you

Michael Frank

Anti-fraud resources: