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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: "Avana Rakotoarivony" <avana_rakotoarivony-malagasy@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Avana Rakotoarivony" <avana.rakotoarivony@inbox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 14:03:06 +0530
Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE!


Greetings to you,

Please permit me to use this medium to discuss with you and i pray that you take my email seriously.
My name is Mr. Avana Rakotoarivony, i am 30 years old from Antananarivo in Madagascar, my late dad died of cancer on the second week of January 2014, he was a politician and me as the only child of my late dad, i inherited 7.8 million dollars from my late dad who deposited the fund in a security company as (family valuables), my late dad told me on his sick bed before his death that inside the sealed deposit box, there is 7.8 million dollars in cash, that he registered the box as (family valuables, that is documents etc) so that the fund would be kept secret from everybody except only me and my mother whom is the only one i have now and she is presently very ill due to blood sugar and high blood pressure and i want to fly her out soon from the country to a foreign country for her to have a better treatment. I have a bad uncle who was aware of the deposit box at the security company because my late dad told him as his only brother during the time of the deposit but my late dad did not reveal the secret of the deposit box to him, recently i was contacted by the security company as the rightful beneficiary that my uncle is putting claims for the deposit box and i have responded back to the security company not to validate his claim and i have received a feedback from the security company that the security company is willing to move the deposit box to any country of my choice i’m fit to receive it and hand the box over to me after receiving my passport copy and completing their verification process.
Why i contacted you is that i am looking for a honest individual to assist me and receive this fund in his or her country, as i am no more save to receive it in my country due to my uncle who is a political mafia, i intend to invest the fund in a foreign country and move my mother out from Madagascar to receive better treatment, if you are the person God have chosen for me to help me, please do not hesitate to reply me and provide me with your contact information’s and phone number so that we can reach an agreement before i will contact the security company once again to lift the deposit box to your contact address in your country for you to receive it while i fly to your country and meet you with the deposit box security key code number to open the box and deposit the fund in a bank, note all i have to do is to send your information’s and your passport copy to the security company to input it in their registry as my guardian and my late father’s foreign associate, the security company will lift the deposit box and deliver it to your provided contact address, i promise to give you 20 percent of the total fund if you be of my assistance in this my difficult time.
Kind regards,
Avana Rakotoarivony


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