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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: Donna Louise <dlouisemclnnes1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 03:12:11 +0000
Subject: I need your assistance,


Greetings and compliments of the day to you,
Please my dear, I'm contacting you through this medium because i need your
urgent charitable investment project assistance in your country. First my
names are Mrs. Donna Louise Mclnnes a widow and a citizen of (Canada) but
presently based in Madrid Spain since my life with my late husband, who
worked with Canada embassy herein Spain for Ten years before he died in
2017. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a
brief illness that lasted for only Six days and i myself have been
suffering from ovarian cancer disease. At this moment i am about to end the
race like this because the illness has gotten to a very bad stage, without
any family members and no child. I hoped that you will not expose or betray
this trust and confident that I am about to entrust on you for the mutual
benefit of the orphans and the less privileges ones. I have some funds I
inherited from my late husband, the total sum of (€ 8.500.000.000 Eight
Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro) deposited with the Ibercaja Bank here
in Spain. Having known my present health status, I decided to entrust this
fund to you believing that you will utilize it the way i am going to
instruct herein.

Therefore I need you to assist me and reclaim this money from the bank and
use it for Charity works, for orphanages and gives justice and help to the
poor, needy,elderly once, disables and to promote the words of God and the
effort that the house of God will be maintained says The Lord. Jeremiah
22:15-16.

Meanwhile it will be my great pleasure to compensate you with 35% percent
of the total money for your effort in handling the transaction, 5% percent
for any expenses that may occur during the international transfer process
while 60% of the money will go to the charity project.
Please all I require from you is sincerity and ability to carry out the
transaction and implement the charitable project that requires absolute
trust and devotion without any failure. I will be glad to see that the bank
has finally release and transfer the fund into your bank account in your
country even before I die here in the hospital, because of my present
health status everything need to be process rapidly as soon as possible.
Zealously waiting to hear from you urgently, if only you are interested for
further details of the transaction and execution of this humanitarian
project for the glory and honor of God the merciful compassionate.

May Bless you and your family.
Graciously Mrs. Donna Louise Mclnnes.

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