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: fred kofi <un.gh.officce@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:48:18 +0000
Subject: FROM DR FRED KOFI

Attention Sir!

I am ,Dr.Fred Kofi ,from the office of United Nation (UN) Ghana. I have
verified carefully from your file here in our office and I discovered that
for the past years you have been working diligently with Africa you have
never receive a cent which is not suppose to be so, your file also state
that you have spent a lot of funds in the process of trying to claim your
legal funds all to no avail.

I have personally gone through your file and I find out that the reason why
you have not been able to receive your funds is that you have not obtained
your Africa International Fund Transfer Permit Certificate (AIFTPC).

If you can obtain this legal document from the United Nation (UN) I
personally am going to drive down to Lome/Togo with your legal file and
transfer all your funds out of Africa to you without no further delay and I
give you 100% guarantee.

I have enquired the cost of the (AIFTPC) and it was confirmed the sum of
US$585 (five Hundred and Eighty Five Dollar).

I have here in your file the total sum of US$10.5M (Ten Million Five
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) to be transferred to you, I hereby
confirmed to you that as soon as you obtain this document, within the next
5 hours I will be in Lome/Togo to commerce the transfer of your fund to you
without any further delay.

I confirm that you commerce the transfer of the documentation payment to
our office secretary: Mr. HAWA MUSAH. To: Accra Ghana. Amount: US$285.


I wait upon your immediate respond,

With best regards

Dr.Fred Kofi

Anti-fraud resources: