419 scam: "Adama Yamba"<sawadamayamba24@voila.fr> From: Mr. Adama Yamba

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united states dollars" (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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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: "Adama Yamba" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sawadamayamba5@voila.fr>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:19:20 +0100
Subject: From: Mr. Adama Yamba

YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!
From: Mr. Adama Yamba
Burkina Faso.

Dear Good Friend,

Compliment of the season to you I am Mr. Adama Yamba, I have a business proposal of Ten Million United States Dollars (US$10,000,000.00M) which I want you to handle with me from my bank as a beneficiary.
If you are interested, please send me your full contact information as below and after that I will send to you the details of the business.

Also this matter should be a confidential between you and me and please delete it if you are not interested, I don't want any person in my bank to know that I am involve during the process.
Thank you for your anticipated co-operation.

1. Full name:
2. Current Address:
3. Telephone N°:
4. Occupation:
5. Age:
6. Country:

Yours Truly
Mr. Adama Yamba

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam