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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: "Capt.Thomas Ben" <captthomas.ben@yandex.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 05:43:34 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Good day my good friend,


Good day my good friend,

My Name is Thomas Ben from united state, but presently in Afghanistan for peace keeping, I got your contact from a google sarch, I am contacting you due to the problem,the United State military is facing now,the US government is against such business deal, so am contacting you, If you are interested to assist me in this regards kindly get back to me as soon as possible for more details on how to proceed.

Needless to say that I will compensate you handsomely, I acquired $5.5 million USD from the contract I did with United Nations oil for food program here in Afghanistan, now my government is against all such contracts done by any military officer serving in Afghanistan and is setting up a panel of investigation to confiscate funds resulting from all contract done by any military officer.

I need your assist  in receiving this fund from the diplomatic company in Accra Ghana where the United Nation deposited my consignment trunk box as a family treasure because i don't want the united nation officers or the diplomatic company in Ghana to understand that it's fund that is inside the 2 metabolic box, that have code numbers.

All arrangement to bring out the consignment boxes from Ghana has being concluded with a United Nations diplomat agent officer in charge. so i want to use the money to invest once i get to the state by March. All I want you to do is to receive the fund since I cannot receive it directly due to my status and duty. I am offering you 30% of the total sum for your assistant, 5% will be for expenses encored during the transaction. Your own part is to stand as my beneficiary to receive the fund in your custody before our meeting when am out from the camp here in Kabul,I will furnish you with more details.

But the whole process is simple and we must keep a low profile at all times,one other thing i would like to assure you is that there is no risk involve in this deal,all you have to do is follow the instructions given to you,i look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks for your understanding

Capt.Thomas Ben


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