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: "Herr Larry"<admin@tomcrisusa.com>
Reply-To: gooogle.winnerss@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:10:37 +0100
Subject: 2018 Google-Team Gewinner


Lieber Gewinner,
Wir freuen uns Ihnen mitteilen zu k=F6nnen, dass Ihre E-Mail-Adresse einen=
Preis gewonnen hat.
Ihre E-Mail wurde unter den 12 (zw=F6lf) gl=FCcklichen Gewinnen von 950.000=
Pfund, w=E4hrend der GOOGLE LOTTERY PROMO VEREINIGTEN K=D6NIGREICH ausgew=
=E4hlt.
=

F=DCLLEN SIE DIESE INFORMATIONEN F=DCR DIE =DCBERPR=DCFUNG
IHR KOMPLETTER NAME: =

IHRE KONTAKTADRESSE: =

Ihre TELEFON KONTAKT NUMMER:
DEINE NATIONALIT=C4T:
SPRICHST DU ENGLISCH: =

Vielen Dank f=FCr die Verwendung von Google Mail, Google Search Matchin un=
d Google anderen Produkten.
Herr Donald Williams.
Internationale Preisabteilung
Gr=FC=DFe,
Herr Larry
Online Google Director
Gro=DFbritannien
+44 (0) 20 7505 786, +3168751016
Wollstra=DFe 37, 67547 Worms

Anti-fraud resources: