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: "Madam Aisha Fatis Al-Saud" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrsyusufaishafatis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 09:03:06 -0800
Subject: Good day

From Madam (Mrs) Aisha Fatis Al-Saud,


Good day to you and I hope you are keeping safe from COVID-19 Pandemic,
My name is Madam Aisha Fatis Al-Saud, daughter of H.E. (Sahib us-Sa'ada) married

to Prince Sa'Id in Saudi Arabia. I got your contact from a reliable source as

someone whom I can trust.

As a woman in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I am not allowed to do business or

operate investment ventures as a house wife. I seek individual or company outside the kingdom on ground presence and experience in business that can assist me receive my money value $78.596 Mill in USD and invest it in a profitable venture while I plan for migration.

I will like to keep this brief and confidential until I hear from you, you can

reach me privately on my email address: mrsyusufaishafatis@gmail.com Currently, my

family private email address is being monitored and as such, I wouldn't want the

nature of our discussion to be exposed; so until my CSE (Cyber Security Engineer)

gives me the 'Go ahead' command to use it, I will then contact you from the family

private email.

Have a nice day,


Madam Aisha Fatis Al-Saud

Anti-fraud resources: