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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Jonathan Zuma" <jonathan47@handbag.com>
Reply-To: jmzuma@btcc.org
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:51:20 -0700
Subject: Compliments of the season

A very good day to you.

I am Mr. Jonathan Mwari Zuma, an accountant and principal overseer with
the South African Mining Corporation. I got your contact through a friend
in my local chamber of commerce in collaboration with the American Consulate
here in South Africa. This is in line with my quest for a reliable and reputable
person/company to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves
transfer of fund to a foreign account.

This said fund (US$20.5m) Twenty million, five hundred thousand United Statesdollars,
is a variation and accumulation of equity investment made in the South African
Mining corporation in the period of 1983-1987. This redeemable investment
interest, has now matured and has long been cleared for disbursement but
with no apparent knowledge of who the investors are as most of the investors
then, were corrupt government officials and their cronies under the obnoxious
apartheid regime who used pseudo names and aliases in the transactions,
and could not come up for claims under the present political setting in
South Africa.

After due consultative sessions with my colleagues in the account
department at the mining corporation over the fund (US$20.5M), which is
now considered as floating fund, we decided to confiscate the fund and placed
it in a private trust company for safe keeping, awaiting further transfer
to a foreign account for further business ventures. What we need now is
a foreign national who can assist us in the transfer of this fund, and also
to help invest the fund in a risk free venture. if you are willing to assist
us in this transfer, we have agreed to compensate you with a certain percentage(20%)
of the total sum (US$20.5m) through mutual negotiations. Your specialty
is not a barrier to this transaction as we have mapped out strategies to
effectively actualize this transaction.

Thank you for your anticipated co-operation, and we hope to hear from
you soon ,to enable us give you full details of the transactions.

Best regards,

Jonathan Mwari Zuma



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