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: "Mrs. Graca Machel Mandela" <mandelagraca3@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Graca Machel Mandela" <mrsgracamachel01@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:37:12 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: I sincerely need your assistance


 


WITH DUE RESPECT, I MUST APOLOGIZE FOR THIS UNSOLICITED MESSAGE, I AM AWARE THAT THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT A CONVENTIONAL WAY OF APPROACHING AN UNKNOWN PERSON FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF PROJECT AND INVESTMENT.                    
But I respectfully insist you read this message carefully before you either take a decision of proceeding or deleting my message as I am optimistic it will be successful for unimaginable financial benefit for both of us.
I am Mrs Graca Machel Mandela, the wife of South African icon and freedom fighter late Nelson Rotlatla Mandela, former President of
South Africa (1994 -1999) who died on December 5, 2013 after a protracted lung infection contracted during his 27th years of incarceration in robin island prison.  
I managed to get your contact details online here in Johannesburg South Africa in my desperate search for a trustworthy person to assist me in this confidential business transaction.
As the Third wife of late Nelson Mandela, he deposited cash in a trust 
account on my name here in south Africa, for safe keeping, he did this because he knew that upon his death, his lioness x wife whinnie Mandela might use all her structural contacts within the AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS [ANC] to deny me what is due to me as his wife who looked after him all those periods he was on sick bed.
As his instinct pre-informed him, his fears was ongoing, as a mozambiquean, all the family members have pounced on me, opposing and insisting that I should hand over the asset to them, but good a thing when my late husband deposited the money into the trust fund account on my behalf we used my son’s name, Mr Malengani Machel, who is currently living here in Johannesburg South Africa, for security reason.
My late husband, Nelson Mandela, deposited US$60.5 MILLIONS (Sixty Millions, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in cash in a bank here in South Africa through diplomatic channel. After his death, I and my son being in Johannesburg,
South Africa, decided to transfer this money out of South Africa for my family use since it is the only confidential thing we benefited. I have relinquished and waved most of his assets/estate willed to me as we are married in community of property for the interest of peace.
This is genuine and not of criminal origin. I must then emphasize that this transaction is highly confidential and is to be kept as such.
Therefore indicate your full interest on assurance of trust, so that we can actualize this great opportunity together and share the benefit together by the help of God. And in the area you are not interested of this deal please kindly delete it immediately from your email .if interested; kindly provide me with your full details so that I can forward them to my lawyer and my banker respectively.
Regards,                                                                                  
In Sincerity,

Mrs Graca Machel
 4th Street Houghton Estates
Johannesburg South Africa
(mrsgracamachel01@gmail.com)



Anti-fraud resources: