joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

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:

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: "Gretchen Van der Aanholt" <gretchen.van.aanholt@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 03:43:48 +0200
Subject: Keep Your Job And Earn Extra


Attention,

Olam Agro is one of the largest cleansing facility dealers in the world. Every year we go out to the markets of different countries, keep and study the demand and sales-market in every country. As a result of our move to the market of United State , Australia, Canada, Greece and South Africa. We are having temporary employee recruitment for the position of a financial manager. It is required for you to be:

Honest and executive.

You must have a bank account

You must have several free time hours per day

You must have a phone number we can get through to You

You must frequently check your emails

Provide the information Below if you are interested in this offer

Full Name:
Phone Number:

This job only requires you to receive a payment from our customer in your bank account, and all you need to do is to send the money back to the store that need to send the goods ordered by the customer. This job won't take much of your time because it only require you to receive payment and send the funds via Western Union or Money Gram to the store office that has the goods that is been purchased by the customer.

For you service, you will always take $300USD from each transaction you receive from our customer and we will advise you on how and where to send the funds.

Regional Attendant Olam Agro
John Lewis

Anti-fraud resources: