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:
  • "the consignment " (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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Tim Bah <timbah3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <tim_bah3@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:09:53 +0000
Subject: Please help us



Good Day,

Is my pleasure for writing you this letter, hope you are fine? I want to use this opportunity to introduce myself well to you, I am Tim Bah, Jr., the son of a late chief Johnson Bah of Sierra Leone, I came to know you in the course of my search for a reliable and God fearing partner and I decide to contact you because I believe you are a reputable person and I felt you can help us over this confidential matter.

I count on your integrity and honesty to be able to handle this business. I have two truck boxes containing $21.5million U.S DOLLARS which is already in LONDON. We are ready to give you 20% from the total money because that was the initial agreement we had with my later father partner, Mrs. Janet Thompson, the consignment is right now in LONDON.

My Late father business partner Mrs. Janet Thompson, who was to receive this consignment containing the money could not be located at the long run. We have been trying to reach her for the past three days since the consignment arrive LONDON, but there is no response and we don’t really know what happen to her so we need your help to receive this consignment on behalf of the family. Please be honest to us we are counting on you.

The director of the security company just inform us yesterday that if we can not provide our father business partner within this period of time, that the consignment we be return back to GHANA, so we need you to stand as my family trustee to receive the consignment in LONDON. If you are willing to help us receive this consignment, all you just have to do is to contact the security company here in Ghana so that they can give you instruction to their agent holding the consignment in LONDON.

If not for God they would have return the consignment back to Africa but God has been helping us. Please reply my mail so that I can give you the contact of the director of security company to discuss with him on the release of this consignment to you, all you just have to do for us is to receive this consignment

THANKS

Tim Bah, Jr.
For the family


_________________________________________________________________
Discover the new Windows Vista
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam