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: "Mrs. Sayuri Yoshiko" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 09:29:45 -0700
Subject: From Sayuri Yoshiko

To My Kind Friend,

Please this is the second time I contacted you but didn't respond? Greetings my good friend, it is my pleasure to communicate with you via this platform so consider it a Divine Wish. My Name is Sayuri Yoshiko; I am a deformed woman on a wheelchair suffering from LIVER AND INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT CANCER, for past 5years without favorable result.

Do not regard this email as one of the common unsolicited email or false business invitations in the world today. I am a dying cancer woman my doctor just told me I will die in few months time I should give my life to Christ for God to accept my soul. I am fully convinced you will be of good help so I need to channel my $10.6M USD meant for investments for charity. It takes a minute, an hour or even a day to know somebody to establish everlasting relationship with truth and honesty. It’s from the bottom of my heart I placed this responsibility in your care to establish, and manage the project, since I will not be present in day-to-day running of the activities, due to my inability to function. I will appreciate a good everlasting trusted relationship even after I die without cheating, lying or sabotaging the project. Please make this a confidential for now; I will appreciate you for acceptance to help actualize this last dream. You can provide me your personal details to fur!
nish the deposited firm where the

Please tell me more about yourself perhaps I will like to position you quickly as my beneficiary before I die, so here is my alternative email kindly get back to me here E-mail: mmkgfs012@gmail.com

Remain blessed

Mrs. Sayuri Yoshiko


Anti-fraud resources: