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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: Olivia Borrego <oliviaborreg123@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Olivia Borrego <jtnwalter@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 18:11:25 +0900 (JST)
Subject: VERY URGENT MAIL FROM HOSPITAL


My Dearest One,
This is Miss Olivia Borrego from Trinidad &Tobago. I am writing from the hospital in Ivory Coast, therefore this mail is very urgent. I want you to know that I'm dying in the hospital which I don't know if i will see few days more. I was told by my doctor that I was poisoned and has got my liver damaged and can only live for some months.
The reason why i contacted you today is because i know that my step mother wanted to kill me and take my inheritance from my late Father. I have a little adopted child named Jonathan Walter that i adopted in this Country when my late Father was alive and $4.5 million Dollars i inherited from my late father. My step mother and her children are after Walter right now because they found out that Walter was aware of the poison, and because i handed the documents of the fund over to him the day my step mother poisoned my food, for that reason they do not want Walter to expose them, so they are doing everything possible to kill him.

I want you to help him out of this country with the money, he is the only one taking good care of me here in this hospital right now and even this email you are reading now, he is the one helping me out.

I want you to contact Walter with this information below:
Name: Jonathan Walter.
Address: Rue De La Princess L /G 152 Cocody
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

He will give you the documents of the money and will direct you to a well known lawyer that I have appointed to him, the lawyer will assist you to change the documents of the money to your name to enable the bank transfer the money to you.

This is the favor I need when you have gotten the money :-

(1) Give 20% of the money to Jonathan Walter as he has been there for me through my illness and I have promised to support him in life. I want you to take him along with you to your country and establish him as your son.

(2) Give 30% of the money to handicap people and charity organization, then the remaining one is yours.
Note; This should be a code between you and Walter in this transaction "Hospital" any mail from him, the barrister he will direct you to, without this code "Hospital" is not from the barrister, Walter, the bank or myself as I don't know what will happen to me in the next few days.

(3) The lawyer's name is Bar Rufus Allen . And Let Walter send you his International passport to be sure of whom you are dealing with. Walter is so little therefore guide him.

And if I don't hear from you, I will look for another person or an organization.

Please do not forget to contact Jonathan Walter
May Almighty God bless you and use you to accomplish my wish.
Pray for me always.
Ms Olivia Borrego

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