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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: Miss Naffi Mohamed <naffimohamed@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 13:33:01 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Greetings my Dear


Greetings my Dear

I sent you this email about two weeks ago and i got no response, so I am forced to contact you again via the internet

My name is Naffi Mohamed, A final year student in University of Cocody Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire. My father was one of the ministers during Laurent Gbagbo regime. My father was murdered along with my mother by the Alassane-Ouattara rebels when they were moving from the capital city to the village where they relocated during Cote D'ivoire political crises.

It was only me left and i move to my uncle during political crises.The funeral of my parent was hold and my uncle requested that i should give him some of my fathers documents. I refused and he collaborated with his wife and turn against me. My father has a lot of properties in Cote D'ivoire which some of them were seized by the current president. In course of searching for my father's properties, my uncle's wife served me a poison meal. But as God may have it, i was weak that day and have some symptom of malaria and lost of appetite, i had no appetite to eat the food, i waited and take the food to dog,Surprising, the following morning the dog died.

Everybody were asking what happen, after an hour my uncle's wife came to me and asked me if i eat the food last night and i responded yes of course. From that moment i discovered that i was not safe there and i have no option than to make a move to save my life. I run out from the house and move to my course mate family house where she leaves with her parent in other to save me life.

Before the death of my father, he distinguished and deposited the sum of $4.5M Dollars with a security company which he kept for the importation of industrial machine . he kept the money in a sealed trunk box and deposited it with the security company, I crave your indulgence as I contact you in such a surprising manner. I want the security company to move or ship the sealed box out of this country to your country to be legally claimed by you. I guarantee you that this venture is risk free . i want you to help me invest this money in any lucrative business over there in your country. As for me i want to come over to your country immediately i confirm from you that you have received the box and continue my education.

Please if you are willing to assist me,indicate your interest in replying soonest, pls do keep this as a secret to your self because it will be very dangerous for people to know that you have such box containing such big amount of money when it is ship to you.

This is my reason for writing you.

Thanks and best regards,
Naffi Mohamed.



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