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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: Garta Irene <garta_i@yahoo.ro>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:37:29 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: from lenlen very urgent response


ASSALAM ALAKU

Pardon me for contacting you through this media. But please I am in desperate need of your assistance; My Name is LENLEN DELA CRUZ, the wife of Mr. Raul Dela CRUZ Mayor of Rizal in Cagayan Province of Philippines. Who was recently killed in the Philippine by unknown gunmen

before the death of my late husband, we traveled together on one of his business trips as a GOLD and COCOA dealer but we could not stay to finalize the business because as the MAYOR of RIZAL he cut off the business due to the urgent important meeting with the president so he gave me the total sum of US$12,500.000 (twelve million five hundred thousand united states dollars) and asks me to put it in a metallic box. Then deposit it in a security and finance company abroad just in case of anything ever happen to him.

I did deposit the total sum as he gave it to me under a secret arrangement as a family valuable. This means that the security company does not know the content of this metallic box.

on his arrival to our country Philippines and after the urgent meeting then on his way home with his body guards then some armed gunmen open fire on his convey and killed everybody on board and since after the death of my late husband, the Philippine government has blocked all my late husband accounts because it is the plan of my late husband brothers,  Also my late husband brothers have succeeded in collecting from me all our properties that is under my control and they are still looking for more and i believe that they may kill me and my children at the end

Therefore I am contacting you to help me secure the sum which I explain to you above, for the future of my kids. Since my late husband family made it impossible for me to move out of my late husband house in Philippine

Please do tell me if I can trust you as who will not do anything bad to me and my children when when you claim the money from the security company.

I am willing to give you 30% of the total money for your kind help to a widow like me and my children, after you have successfully secured the money in your country and you will also help me invest the money in a good business there in your country so that my children will finish their education in your country

i will like to hear from you immediately so that i will know if i can trust you with all my heart and if you are capable so that i can send you all the documents that i collected from the security company so that you will understand better.
i await your urgent response

yours  faithfully




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