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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: eve bruce <akubiaisaac3284@gmail.com>
Reply-To: evebruce1@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:11:45 +0100
Subject: Good day, Pls get back to me.

Dearest One,

I am Miss Eve Bruce young medical student, family from Cote d’Ivoire
but currently based in Togo lome west Africa. I would like to go into
a partnership with you; it is my pleasure to contact you for a
business venture which I intend to establish in your country. Though I
have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk confident
in succeed sometimes in life.

My father was a very rich cocoa/timber farmer before he was killed in
the fight after Mr. Gbagbo, the former president refused to accept
defeat in the polls. Before the fight broke out, my father told me
that he deposited the amount ($10.500, 000, 00 Dollars) with my name
in the suspense account with a Bank. Now I have decided to invest this
money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for
security and political reasons.

I want you to help me claim and retrieve these fund from the Bank and
transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment
purposes, since the money is deposited in the suspense account I can
not have access to the fund until it is transferred out from the
account that is why I am contacting you to assists me and see that the
Bank transfer the money into your personal account for to me to leave
this country and meet you over there.

If you can be of assistance to me I will be pleased to offer you 10%
of the total fund and again we are going to invest together and share
what ever profit we make together, Please reply me as soon as possible
in order to enable us conclude this transfer.I am waiting for your
soonest response.

Yours Sincerely,
Miss. Eve Bruce

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