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: Asana Hajraf <asana.hajraf@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Asana Hajraf <asanahajraf@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:44:04 +0900 (JST)
Subject:

Dearest,

I am Mrs. Asana Hajraf and I'm married to Mr. Hassan Hajraf for 19 years without a child and my husband died in 2008. I am contacting you to let you know my desire to donate the sum of $ 4.5 million to charities in your country that I inherited from my late husband. Due to my illness of cancer were confirmed that i will have only eight months to live, so it is my desire to see that this money is invested to any organization of your choice and distributed to charity organizations, motherless babies home, schools and support for men and women homeless or you can consider the benefit of those less fortunate. I do not want this fund to be use diabollically. As soon as I receive your reply confirming your acceptance of work I tell you, I will give all relevant information to authorize the release and transfer the money to you as my duly appointed representative.

Thank you,
Mrs. Asana Hajraf

Anti-fraud resources: