joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

• About the 419 (Advance Fee) scam
• "Is that email a scam?" - Check it online here!
  
• Frequently asked Questions (419 FAQ)
• Phone numbers used by 419 scammers
  (+225 +229 +234 +27 +31 +32 +34 +44 other)
• Company names mentioned in 419 spam:
  1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Support our efforts to stop scams!
  
• How to report 419 spam to us
• What can you do when you receive 419 spam
  
  
• Spam archive, Daily index
  

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.

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.

Fraud email example:

From: billa_ngoki5@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:16:51 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20REPLY=20NEEDED=2E?=

Dear friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise.I got your address
through a local Business directory on the web.I must apologise for taking
some of your valuable time to explain a proposal that I believe will be
of utmost benefit to us. I need your help and urgent assistance in transfering
the sum of (11.300.000)ELEVEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS
immediately to your account.the fund belongs to one of our foreign customer
who died along with his surposed next of kin in 1999 plane crash.

we want to release the money to you as the nearest person to the deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it because
we don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as unclaimed money.
we will give you 25% of the total sum for the provision of foreign account
and 70% will be for us while 5% will be set aside for any mislenious expenses
incurred during the business.

This transaction is 100% hitch-free on both side and has no atom of negativity,for
we have made all required arrangement for the transfer of this fund to your
account. Please we would like you to keep this transaction very confidential
as you may wish to know that we are Bank officials.

I will send you more details as soon as i get a positive reply from you.

Dr.Billa Ngoki. (Bill and Exhange Manager )



------------------------------------------
Use o melhor sistema de busca da Internet
Radar UOL - http://www.radaruol.com.br

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam