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"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.

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

Fraud email example:

From: "ELLIOT KOBINA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <elliotkobina2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:39:56 -0800
Subject: greetings to you

Good Day,
My Name is Elliot Kobina a bonafide citizen of Sudan and the eldest child of late Mr.Festus Kobina.
My father was a Gold merchant in Dafur -Sudan before he was shot by rebel soldiers in the recent civil war but he was rush to a United Nations humanitarian hospital in Khartuom-Sudan where he died after three days but before he died he disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of $ 8,300,000.00 in an ESCROW with Citi Bank in Accra-Ghana and he also told me that the money was made from the sale of gold transaction he had when he visited Ghana.

I just arrive in Ghana from Sudan through the help of the United Nations High Commission as a refugee and i have been able to locate the bank regarding the claim of the fund but i was told by the bank manager that there is no way i can have access to fiscal cash from the account here in Ghana unless i transfer it out to a foreign account outside Ghana reason because it was deposited inside an ESCROW account and i can not transfer this money to my country because my country is unstable due to the bloody civil war that claim lot of lives and property , so i am therefore soliciting for your help to be my beneficiary who the fund will be transfer to and after receiving it , you will help me to invest this money into any lucrative business venture in your country and for your assistant to help me, i am offering you 40% of the total money in the account and the remaining 60% will be for me which you will invest on my behalf in your country until i complete my educational career.

Waiting urgently to hear back from you so that we can proceed to the the bank regarding the claim of my inherited funds.

I can also attach a copy of my refugee id card as an attachment with this mail so that you will know the face of the sender of this mail.

Your,s Sincerely,


Elliot Kobina.

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