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: Sumbre J <ifeelsoblue@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:48:44 +0900
Subject: Good News My Friend

Dear friend

I'm sorry but happy to inform you about my success in
getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner
from Paraguay though I tried my best to involve you in the business but
God decided the whole situations. I hope you can still remember me
because it's been long we wrote last to each other because I lost access
to my email so I lost your contact and lucky I just find it again
through my search in Google because I need to pay you back for your
help. Presently, I am in a very bad condition here in Paraguay and I can
not tell of what will happen after now because I was diagnosed for
cancer for about 7 years ago, meanwhile,I didn't forget your past
efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite
that it failed us some how. However, I want to use this medium to thank
you very much for your earlier assistance to help me in transferring the
fund without any positive outcome due to your fear. I am obliged to
inform you that I have succeeded in receiving the funds with the
help of a new partner from Paraguay. Everything was perfectly done
because we struck a deal with one of the Ladies Accountant who works
with the Federal Ministry of Finance here in my country (FMF), who
rendered a tremendous help to us. In appreciation of your earlier
assistance to me in receiving the funds, I have decided to compensate
you with the sum of US$850,000.00 which I registered under your name with
GOLD VISA CREDIT CARD OFFICE in Burkina-Faso. This is from my own share
of the fund to you so please manage it and also try to help the needy
from it.



In view of the above, I want you to contact the
Visa Card programming Manager in Burkina-Faso his name is Mr Aburon
Edward and his e-mail address is: info.creditcard@email.com



Contact
him with the above email address and forward him your NAME,ADDRESS AND
MOBILE phone number so that he can process and send you the Visa Card to
your address. the reason why I registered the fund for you through VISA
CREDIT PAYMENT is to make things easy for you to avoid bank transfer
delays and problems. with the Gold visa card you will be able to
withdraw $10,000 everyday as your daily limit in any part of the world
and that I believe is the best for you so feel free and get in touched
with the Visa Card Manager Mr Aburon Edward and instruct him where to
send the ATM GOLD CARD to you. Do let me know immediately you receive it
so that we can share the joy together if am still alive. remember that I
had forwarded instruction to the Manager on your behalf to receive that
ATM payment, so feel free to get in touch with him. He
will send the Visa card to you.



Regards,

Sumbre J












Anti-fraud resources: