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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • humble_james@rediffmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: james akol <jamesy5@web.de>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:06:19 +0200
Subject: YOU ARE BLESSED




Dear Sir/Madam.

I am very sorry to contact you in this manner, because I got your contact when am searching for a reliable person from the Ghana business directory here in west africa - Ghana, that is how I come across your email so that i can find a favor from you to assist me and my mother to stand as our foreign busines beneficiary to get our funds out of Africa, deposited in a security company in Accra Ghana by my late father. But I respectfully insist that you read this mail carefully for GOD sake.

I am a citizen of Southern Sudan the first and only son of the late Chief Dr Uta Akol who work with the foreign government in Sudan 1999 to export at the Oil Venture to foreign country but unfortunately he was killed by rebels during political problem in my country Sudan 2005. When the government of Sudan try to investigate the profit of the Oil been export out of Port Sudan, so the opposition leaders disrupt the Oil operational and cause war in Sudan. Before my Father's death he made my mother to understand that he deposited some huge amount of money in a security company in Ghana West Africa, which he Made from sales of gold and Oil business in Africa Market and he give my mother all relevant document of the trunk box Which he deposited (marked) as family belonging.
I and my mother were able to move out from Sudan through the UNITED NATION RESCUE TEAM, that Coven refugee from Sudan to Accra Ghana, West Africa. Because we want to make the claims of the trunk box content $11 Million Dollar.

I am hereby soliciting your assistance to be my foreign partner and adviser because:
I do not know much about investment or how to handle this funds,here in Ghana that is why we need your assistance as a foreign partner to help us to move this funds out of Africa for security reason in your country,for profitable investment. I and my mother we are leaving as a refugees in Ghana because we are hiding our identity as the family of late Chief Dr. Uta Akol, Please if you are interested to help us please promise us to keep this transaction confidential because nobody knows about the existence of this funds I and my mother agreed to give you "Twenty Percent" of the total sum of the funds inside the trunk box, your compensation for the assistance is negotiable.

After the success of this transaction you are going to make arrangement for my mother and I to meet you over in your country for investment of the funds or before you agree to assist us to stand as my foreign partner for you to know am not joking kindly make trip to come to meet me in Ghana in person so that we meet face to face, for us to go to the security company to present you as my late father foreign business partner, because the Company said to us that before the claims of the trunk box due to the agreement been made with my late father when is making the deposit of the trunk box, that we most present his busines foreign partner to make sure the box deliver to him. According to my mother she said my late father make this agreement for security reason so that nobody knows about the content of the funds here in Africa.

kindly get back to me with more details about you if you are interested to be my life partner so that i disclose so much secret to you with more details about the funds and how to discuss with the Security Company because we have all document with us here to get the box out of africa and you have to keep this transaction secret and confidential.

Thanks and God bless.
James Akol.
please contact me at my private email via: humble_james@rediffmail.com [mailto:humble_james@rediffmail.com]



SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und
kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! *http://f.web.de/?mc=021192* [http://f.web.de/?mc=021192]

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam