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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: Martin Johnson <johnsonmartin76@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 03:58:43 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Good Day .


Good Day ,

How are you doing? I am sorry for bagging into your privacy. I am Johnson Martin, 18 years old and the only child of my late parents, a second year student in University of Abidjan. My father Mr .Felix Johnson was the Science and Technology Minister. My father died in a hospital. He had been diagnosed with liver cancer and my mother was one of the four bodies were recovered in West Duekoue during political crisis It was only me left and I move to my uncle during political crisis and before he died, He deposited a trunk box containing the sum of $5.5Million) with a private security company with a documents issued to him which is on my possession now. The funeral of my parent was to hold and my uncle requested that I should give him some of my father’s documents, I refused and he collaborated with his wife and turn against me.

 My father has a lot of properties in here which some of them were seized by the relatives. 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 loss of appetite, I had no appetite to eat the food, I waited and take the food to dog. Surprisingly, the following morning only dog at home died. Everybody were asking what happen, after an hour the wife came to me and asked if i ate the food last night and I responded yes of course.

Due to this I want you to act as my partner to receive the fund since I have contacted the security company for the claim and retrieval of the box on their custody and the director of the security company has agreed and promise to lift the box to my partner through their diplomatic means as soon as I appointed one person since my uncle and his wife were after my life. Due to this, I want you to act as my partner to receive the fund in your country for me and help to get me out of here as I don’t want to trust blindly to lose everything I have inherited from my late father so I may move over to his place or country to finish my education.

Hope to hear from you urgently so as to give you more details

God bless you,
Martin Johnson 

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