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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: "UNITED NATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <unitednationorganisation@live.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 23:39:53 -0700
Subject: UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION

 
                      UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
                       OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN
               (JOINT MONITORING UNIT ON FOREIGN CONTRACT PAYMENT)
            799 United Nations Plaza, New York, Ny 10017-3505
          London Annex: 27-29 Poultry Avenue, Queen spark London
        Tel/Fax: 44 207048033, E-mail: unitednationorganisation@live.com
 
           Your Ref: UNO/OSC/FCRP/070-08           Date: 06/06/09.
 
Attn:
 
           RE: ILLEGAL DEALINGS WITH UNAUTHORIZED PAYMENT OFFICERS.
 
Following series of petitions received from the International Monetary Transfer Operations, Nigerian on your behalf and based on our investigation on foreign payment, we are glad to inform you that we are aware of your illegal contact/dealing made to you by some impersonators claiming to be attorneys, bank official and director of different offices, also efcc in Nigeria. We received a petition that you spend some money on several occasion. You are advised to stop dealing with these people as they are trying to divert your fund.
 
On these findings, we contacted the office of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Umaru Musa YarAdua, and the Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria, to find out the real officers in-charge, or those who oversees foreign contract payment and especially inheritance payment here in Nigeria and they told us that the only authorized officer appointed and mandated by the President is the Director Telex/Foreign Operation OCEANIC BANK your fund be deposited for security keeping,  You are to call him on  REV. JOHN W.CLIFFORD Tel: +234-8030484887, Email: INF0@oceanicbank-nig.com
 
In view of this notice, you are advised to discontinue further communication with any other person unless you are directed to do so by the appointed officers as stated above, this is for your own best interest as we will not be responsible for any malpractices. We have started through investigation into the fraudulent dealings with the names of the officers as submitted to us by the INTERPOL AND WORLD BANK FUND MONITORING UNIT.
 
Do contact the Telex Director (O.B.I) of Nigeria, REV. JOHN W. CLIFFORD in regards to your payment, as he is the only person authorized by the Federal Government of Nigeria to effect foreign payment. In view of this present finding, do disregard/discontinue further communication with unauthorized payment officials or any local representative of yours in Nigeria, as they are on the list of those who do not want you to receive your fund.
 
Finally, you have been warned of this great misconduct by this ungrateful Nigerians, do comply accordingly with the above directives and contact the above named officers for your payment.
From now henceforth, we will be monitoring your payment and calls/ faxes, whether you are still contacting the unauthorized person/local representatives or any other person. We have equally sent a signal to the CIA and FBI in America to assist us in apprehending this great impostor.
 
The United Nations Monitoring Teams World Bank fund Monitoring units eagerly looking forward for the culprits for prosecution, help us to serve your better.
 
Thanks,
 
 
 
Mr. Collins Young
For: United Nations Monitoring Team, London

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