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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: MASTRALLET PATR <mastralletp@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 04:24:30 +0000
Subject: HELLO MY DEAR

Hello my dear friend,I hope you are doing well over there. My names is
Patrick Mastrallet and I work with green lions Motors Company's here as
sells manager , my director is Dr engineer Anderson LUIS is the owner of
the green lions Motors Company's and he is the person who deposited in sum
of 3.5 million US dollars in the bank before he died in Corona virus
problem in Germany since last three years ago in hospital WAnceww2a. He
died on january 2020 with his family members without any registered next of
kin and as such the fund has an open beneficiary mandate.Now i am
contacting you because you bear the same surname with him.if you are
interested on it kindly write me back so we can discuss more details about
it and I assure you that this transaction is 100 legitimate.Talking of the
sharing ratio.i will take 55%,5% will be set aside and donated to
charitable organizations and orphanages. 40% goes to you,after the transfer
i will fly to your country to take my percentage share,i require your
complete honesty and transparency,i await your response as you send me the
listed data below......

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