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: Desmond Kara <desmmonnd@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:24:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: This is why i decided to contact you.



Hello ,
I am writing this letter with due respect and with a heart filled with tears. I want to beg for your forgiveness should this letter come to you as a surprise and a sort of embarrassment since you are going to receive it from an unknown person. I decided to send you this mail not because i personally want to embarrass you but it is because of my situation need urgent care, love, immediate attention and intervention hence the inner urge to contact you for assistance. I came across your email address in the internet as was searching for a foreign business partner who will help me to invest my fund. It was after going through your profile which projected you in good order that i made up my mind to write you. I believe you can help me if you wish to.

My reason for contacting you is that i want to invest my funds in your country, i will like to know if it can be possible for you to help me to invest the fund in profitable business projects in your country. As i stated above i came across your profile in one of the sites and i felt the need to contact you because your profile my mind told me that you will reply back my email and that you are going to help me. I will be very glad if you can lead me to the right channel by rendering assistance to me in terms of providing a safe bank account where the fund will be transferred before we investing the money in sound and lasting investment projects. Once again, please forgive me for sending this email to you. I am sure you are not expecting to receive any email from an unfamiliar person at this period of time.

It is very important for me to introduce myself to you at this point. My name is Desmond Kara, i am from the Republic of South Sudan.
My late father Mr Kamara Kara was a well known oil and gas dealer in Sudan when he was alive. My father and mother were attacked by armed bandits inside our house in Sudan, one early morning and both of them were killed in cold blood, these are evils perpetrated by heartless people in the bloody war which was fought in my country. I was at the University of Sudan reading engineering when this sad incident occurred. I am the only person that is alive in my family,it gives me nightmares and sleepless nights whenever i remember the brutal death of my parents. I managed to find my way to Senegal where i am seeking for political asylum.

My reason for contacting you is that i want you to assist in the area of investing my funds in profitable business ventures. And also for you to help me to secure the transfer of the huge amount of money in my possession which my father left behind to a safe bank account in your country. The amount involved is $9,700,000 ( Nine million seven hundred thousand United States dollars), it was deposited in one of the banks in Madrid, Spain some years ago by my father in which my name appeared as his next of kin and beneficiary of the fund in the bank's official deposit file. I want you to be my business partner and foreign representative. Your duty is to help me to secure the transfer of the above mentioned amount of money to a safe bank account in your country. I am not permitted by the law of this country to open bank account or transfer money to any bank because of my status as an asylum seeker, the law of Senegal does not allow asylum seekers to open bank account or transfer money to banks. When i contacted the bank where the fund was deposited the manager of the bank confirmed that the money is still intact and advised me to search for a foreign investor who can help me to invest the fund.
 
I have decided to give you 15% of the total sum as your commission for the help you are going to give me by providing a safe bank account where the fund would first be transferred before we start investing it in your country. You will also be entitled to a certain percentage on accrued profits after investment. I have full confidence in your ability to assist me based on what i saw in your profile. For you to know the reality of the existence of the fund, i am inviting you to come to Senegal to see me in person for you to see a physical proof that the fund was deposited at the bank in Madrid,Spain by my father before his untimely death, i consider meeting you in person very important. I will give you more details immediately i receive a positive reply from you. I will also send you my telephone number,my picture and a scanned copy of my passport.
Yours sincerely,
Desmond.



Anti-fraud resources: