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: Joel Bandama <joelbanda09@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Joel Bandama <joelbandama@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:36:43 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Mr Joel Bandama


Hello Dearest One,
My
name is Mr Joel Bandama, I hope this mail finds you well & healthy
and i hope we can established a relationship
since we are meeting for the first time, i have gone through fasting
and prayers
asking God to lead me to
a trust worthy person who will help me with this transaction and it
interests me to contact you after my prayers for an assistance to help
me transfer this Sum of 4.7 Million USA dollars my father deposited in a
bank here in Benin Republic before he was
assassinated.

I like honesty, trust, love, truth, caring,&
respect, I have all this qualities in me and i believe you have all this
qualities too, that is why i decided to contact you for this
transaction, i will like you to contact me as soon as possible so that
we can know ourselves better.

Thanks and hoping to hear from
you
soonest.

Mr Joel
Bandama&a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;a
mp;l
t;/
div>

Anti-fraud resources: