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.

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • mazuluahmed4@myway.com
  • mazuluahmed3@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mazulu ahmed" <mazuluahmed16n@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mazuluahmed10@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:22:40 +0100
Subject: RESPOND TO THIS MAIL

RESPOND TO THIS MAIL
PHONE 234,8054,734121
NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM COPERATION
FROM ENGINEER MAZULU AHMED
RE: CONTRACT AGREEMENT.
E -( mazuluahmed4@myway.com)

Dear

I wish to acknowledge and recognize your importance in this
business transaction which will take us only one month. I am a
member of contract awarding committee which I was the chairman.
A contract was awarded to foreign company to lay pipes from
Port-Harcourt to Warri refineries which was awarded in the year
2000, the contract was 60 million United State dollars but been a
contract awarding committee chairman I over inflated in to the tone
of 90 million United State Dollars, the work have been completed and
the company have been paid by Nigeria National Petroleum
Cooperation and they have gone, what is left now is 30 million
United State Dollars which was kept in one of the Finance/Security
Company set up by the Federal Government that is in charge of
paying foreign contractors.

I need your assistance to assist me conclude this golden
opportunity and to secure the fund into your possession, because
being the chairman, I cannot do it alone without the help of a
foreigner who will stand as the contractor who executed the job. So
furnish me with the following particulars for me to perfect the
remmittance of this fund to your posession.

1. NAME IN FULL:...................................
2. ADDRESS:........................................
3. NATIONALITY:....................................
4. AGE:............................................
5. Sex.............................................
6. OCCUPATION:.....................................
7. MARITAL STATUS:.................................
8. PRIAVTE PHONE NO................................
9. PRIVATE FAX NO:.................................


Please you should keep the business very secret and confidential to
yourself, do not tell anybody even your wife or your children till
the money gets to your account, then I will join you in your
country for a meeting and subsequent, introduce me into a
profitable business where I will invest my own share of the fund.
I have set aside 100% to be shared between me and you. I being the
contract awarding committee chairman, I will get 50%, you that is
assisting me will get 40% then 10% will be shared between both
parties for any expenses we may meet on the way during the transaction.
Please keep it very secret and confidential to yourself.
Awaiting your urgent response for us to proceed.
OR CONTACT ME (mazuluahmed3@myway.com)


God bless.
Best regards
From: Engineer Mazulu Ahmed..

_________________________________________________________________
Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!
http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam