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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: "WILSON CHILEMBA" (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:35:34 -0800
Subject: RE:ATTENTION

Attention:

My name is Wilson Chilemba , a member of the Kenya Presidential task force on offshore Rig maintenance and oil spillage clean-up. Early last year there was a major oil spillage on the East Africa of Kenya which vanderlised outer 60% of the Community . A contract was handled by a foreign firm but because of the monetary profit we envisaged, we decided to over-invoice the contract sum. Now the contract has been completed and the original Contractor has since been paid but the contract balance of $15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million US Dollars) which was resulted from the over-invoiced contract sum that has been left in a suspense account with a bank in Malaysia which I am signatory to the account .
Meanwhile, I want to launder this money into a foreign account through a business medium and I would need a reliable business partner that has an equity line of account or a coperate business account .Every effort will be compensated with a total of 20% of the total funds. It's risk free , every document will be scan and send to you when I have your response on my desk.

Regards,
Wilson Chilemba








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