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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: Yeshika Dario <ty5568a@live.fr>
Reply-To: <ydario01@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:24:54 +0200
Subject: From Mrs.Dario




Hello Dear,
My name is Madam Yeshika Dario from Sudan. I am a widow with a chronic renal insufficiency case, a kidney disease and I am presently putting up in a guest house with my son here in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire.
However, I want to intimate you of an urgent assistance I need from you and if you can not assist fully, I will like you to please source a trustworthy person to receive a certain deposit I inherited from my late husband for an investment. My late husband deposited the sum of $ 5.7 million with a bank here in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire before his death while in service as a general in the Army in my home country, but before his death, he handed me over all the documents relating to the deposit in the bank and asked me to leave for Abidjan and arrange with a foreign partner to invest the money so that my children could have a better education and a good life. Consequently, I and my son Mefas, has come to this place and have located the bank and all modalities have been put in place to transfer this money abroad. I therefore want to use you as my late husband’s foreign associate to receive this money into your account or to whom you may recommend for the investment so that my son can continue his education while I am properly administered medically abroad. Meanwhile, I will like you to urgently furnish me with your banking co-ordinates to effect the transfer into your account in your country and also your private telephone and home address so that I can send you all the related documents of the deposit with the bank for yourperusals and confirmation. Because of my ill health, I am mostly bedridden in the hospital on renal dialysis, this is a system of artificially doing/performing the functions of the kidneys. By this, the excess toxic waste products in my blood are washed out. So in case you call or write me, feel free to communicate with my son Mafes. He also has the details of what I have briefed you. I will like you to reply me immediately so that I can detail you accordingly concerning this and the next step to take, please note that you will be compensated accordingly for assisting me and my son to successfully transfer this money out of this country for the investment in your country. Hope to hearing from you urgently. Sincerely yours,Madam Yeshika Dario/Mefas son

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