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: collinssule@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:26:36 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?please=20i=20need=20your=20help?=

PLEASE REPLY THROUGH THIS EMAIL ONLY mrsule_collins@indiatimes

Greetings :
You may be surprised to receive my
letter, however, I got your contact from the Chamber
of Commerce and Trade. I have decided to contact you
for confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business.
My name is SULE COLLINS, I was a Personal Assistant to
the Late Congo President, LAURENT KABILA, who was
assasinated in February and my aim of writing to you
is because of the need for a trusted and honest
person, who I can entrust the sum of US$12,800,000
(Twelve million, eight hundred thousand USDollars).
Source of the money: I and the late president secured
this money in a security firm in Accra Ghana, in my name
before his death. Now that he is late, I want to
transfer the money out of Africa, for investment in
your
country, I can not travel out of where I am on
asylum, hence I am asking for your assistance to have
this money in your care pending when I will secure
travel documents to come over to your country.If you
accept this offer we shall share the money as follows:
for you,
25%, 75% for me. I have all the title documents to
the fund which I can transfer to you to enable you
have assess to it. Be assured that is risk-free and
legitimate.
Please advise me on your position by this e-mail
mrsule_collins@indiatimes.com
immedaitely, Please I await your prompt reply.
MR SULE COLLINS




------------------------------------------
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