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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: Michael Bla <blamichael865@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:17:16 -0800
Subject: with due respect:


Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you I got your contact and choose you by faith as a Christian,I must
not hesitate to confide in you for this legal, truthful and Godly
relationship, I am Michael Blansah the only son of late Mr and Mrs Henok
Blansah. I am 20 years old. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in
(Republic of Ghana),

my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their
outings on a business trip to England. My mother died when I was a baby and
since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father in a
private hospital here in GHANA he secretly called me on his sick bed side
and told me that he has the sum of four million five hundred thousand
United State Dollars. USD($4.500,000) left in fixed / suspense account in a
bank here in GHANA ,he used my name as his only son for the next of Kin in
depositing of the fund,

my late father Instructed me to seek for a foreign partner in a country of
my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment
purpose such as real estate management, hotel management or any other
lucrative business venture, Dear, I am honorably seeking for your
assistance in the following ways: (1) To provide a bank account in which
this money would be transferred to. (2) To serve as my guardian and of this
fund since I am only 20 years. (3) To make arrangement for me to come over
to your country to further my education,

Note: I am willing to offer you 30% of the total sum as compensation for
your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this fund to your
nominated bank account. please make sure that you write me very fast for
more details,

looking forward to hear from you urgently,

Best Regards.
Michael Blansah.

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