419 scam: "Alex Coulibaly and Monica Coulibaly"<coulibalychildrn2@gmail.com> For Your Kind Attention

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:
- "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
- "demurrages " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "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)
- "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)
- "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)
- "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Alex Coulibaly and Monica Coulibaly" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <coulibalychildrn2@gmx.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:07:07 -0000
Subject: For Your Kind Attention

Dear Sir/Madam,

PLEASE I want to crave your indulgence in reading through this mail to understand our predicament. My name is Alex Coulibaly while my younger sister name is Monica Coulibaly a Malian who is presently residing at the refugee camp here in Accra-Ghana. All hope of having a better future was shattered by the war in my country(Mali). I and my younger sister being the only surviving family of a major gold/diamond merchant in Mali.

Please am contacting you today to assist me and my younger sister to retrieve and receive our consignment from the diplomat overthere in America that contains Seventeen million United States dollars ($17,000,000.00usd), the consignment is presently in America. The consignments got to America through the help of Dr.Raymond Wood. The fact is that Dr.Raymond Wood is suppose to delivered the consignment to a man called Mr Bruce Miller in America. The week Dr.Raymond Wood is suppose to deliver the consignment to him when he got to America after clearing the consignment from the Airport he call Mr Bruce Miller to give him the full description to his house for delivery which the new occupant of Mr Bruce Miller Resident answered the call and told Dr.Raymond Wood that Mr Bruce Miller hard a fatal car accident that lead to his death.

Mr Bruce Miller has already paid the demurrages from the security company, he paid for custom check report,and also assisted us in getting the DRUG / ANTI TERRORIST CERTIFICATE which is so expensive that he spent over Thirty thousand dollars to acquire it, but unfortunately he died in a car accident that was why Dr.Raymond has to deposit the consignment with a warehouse over there in America and called us to informed us about the situation of things and told us to look for a new beneficiary that we received the consignment on our behalf in America.

Please,if you are willing to assist us we will like you to forward your name and address to us so that we can go and file an application at the security company where the boxes was formally lodge before taken to America that you are our new foreign beneficiary to receive our consignment on our behalf in America.

We await your urgent response.

Thanks and God bless you

Alex Coulibaly and Monica Coulibaly.

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam