joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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:

Fraud email example:

From: "Sgt David Larry" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sgtdavidlarry001@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:59:05 +0100
Subject: Sgt David Larry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From :Sgt David Larry.
2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment Patrols.
Anbar province, Iraq.

Good day and compliments, I know this letter will definitely come to you
as a huge surprise, I am Sgt David Larrys, serving in the 2nd Battalion,
25th Marine Regiment which Patrols the Anbar province,Iraq.

I am desperately in need of your assistance and I have summoned up courage
to contact you. I am presently in Iraq. I am seeking your assistance to
evacuate the sum of

$30million (Thirty Million United States of America Dollars) to the States
or any safe country, as far as I can be assured that it will be safe in
your care until I

complete my service here, right now the said fund is under the security
and diplomatic agents in which as soon as you response to me with the
needed information i will

forward them to the head office for the necessary action to be done and
proceed to meet with you, they are going to move it in a diplomatic way as
a consignments.

Contact me as soon as possible with your information below so that I can
furnish you with more details.

YOUR FULL NAME.........
YOUR FULL ADDRESS....................
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER.........
YOUR IDENTIFICATION..................................
YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ..............
YOUR OCCUPATIONS ..............


Respectfully,

Sgt David Larry.
2nd Battalion,
25th Marine Regiment Patrols
Anbar province, Iraq

Anti-fraud resources: