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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: dovydas3736@aol.com
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:20:13 -0400
Subject: reply soon



I have a business offer that will us both alot of money, I feel very uncomfortable sending this message to you without knowing truly if you would misconstrue the importance and decides to ignore it but I will not hold back to say that the essence of this message is strictly for mutual benefit between you and I, and nothing more. I humbly request for your assistance and I guarantee that it will be highly rewarding. I use to be a resourceful business man, as I deal in crude oil trade during 70’s and 80’s but during 1990 I took advice of a banker and setup an account with a financial company in ireland under a different name as he advised to hide my financial resources but as I get older I lost most of my wealth due to poor habit and am currently battling a lifelong medical conditions that required financial resources to keep me alive but unfortunately for me am currently out of funds and the only account I have with money in it is under a different name and I couldn’t access the funds because the name on the account is different from my own name. The main reason why am contacting you is simply because the last name I use in setting up that account matches your last name and since I have all the account details and documents, am simply seeking for your assistance to use you as the primary beneficiary to get the funds out and transfer it to a different account, the total fund I have in that account with accumulated interest is precisely equivalent to $5,370,398.90 million USD and I will be willing to reward you with $1million for your assistance.




This will be a simple process and if you are interested I will provide you with all the account details for verification and details on how we are going to proceed and it’s a process that wouldn’t waste much of your time as it may only require less than a 3days for us to conclude the process and I will reward you with $1million for your effort.




Kindly reply me directly on my personal email at(ddominykas@hotmail.com), so we can further discuss about it and how we can proceed. I will be looking forward hearing from you.






With Regards,
Dovydas Dominykas
Email:(ddominykas@hotmail.com)

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