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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: "rose white" <rosewhite41@mail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:25:15 -0500
Subject: my dear


Mrs. Rose White

I am Mrs. Rose White from Netherlands,I am 68 years old, i am suffering from a long time Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and cancer of the breast, from all indication my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that i can't work or do any stressful thing, according to my doctors they have advised me that i may not live for the next two months,this is because the Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and cancer of the breast stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I was brought up from a motherless babies home was married to my late husband for twenty years without a child. My Husband (Late Mr. Amin Bin Amal a Malaysian) died by hired Assassin Before his death we were true Muslim. Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I sold all properties including our Palm Oil Produced Company the Money is in Finance Company.

Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote me as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so long will attract a demurrage fees as the Finance Company fees paid by me has expired or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get it confiscated.


So instead of getting it confiscated i rather have someone whom i can trust to receive the funds and utilize it according to my wishes.All i need from you is a confidential assurance that the funds when received by you will be used for the said purpose, Nowadays there are so much scams going on in the internet and it is difficult to trust but i don't know why the spirit still approved me to email you about this out of few email addresses i have from the internet, yours was the only one that my mind convinced me to contact. I am writing this from my laptop computer in my hospital bed where I am receiving palliative care waiting for my time to come.

Waiting for your reply.
Regards,
Mrs. Rose White

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