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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: "John Mensak" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infogcb12010@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:17:06 +0430
Subject: TELEGRAM: GHANA COMMERCIAL BANK (GCB)

TELEGRAM: GHANA COMMERCIAL BANK (GCB)
>From The Desk of: John K Mensah
Website: www.ghanacommercialbank.org
GCB Head Office P. O. Box 134. Accra.
Hot-line: +233548294154
RE: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER.


Attn: Beneficiary.


I am in receipt of your e-mail message declining that you never sent Mr. John Tsai for the claim on your behalf but then I must tell you that you have not done your home work very well and that is why somebody you do not know, has claimed to know much about your payment and has the guts to write an official letter to claim your money.
Anyway be grateful to God that the monitoring unit in the Commercial Bank has saved you, otherwise if we had not contacted you, the impersonator would have happily gone away with your money ($12.5million) however, I am not going to take this as a joke but I must get the culprits arrested. I have called the inspector general of police to send first thing tomorrow morning five police officers to arrest this man and his colleague since I have invited them tomorrow for approval of their request.


Now, I want to use this opportunity to warn you to stop communicating with anybody regarding your payment. All you need to do right now to take back possession of your funds is that you must procure from the supreme court of Ghana (a Counter Affidavit of Facts and Reclaim) as this is the only legal instrument that you need to get your funds release to you.


Note: since Mr. John Tsai obtained from the Justice Ministry a change of Account/Letter of Authorization to claim the money, the only document that will nullify his claim is your immediate procurement of the aforementioned affidavit, which will state your declination that you never instructed this man to claim your money. Should you decline orally without a legal evidence to show for it, even if the police arrest Mr. John Tsai, he can drag the matter to court and as you know, the court does not believe oral declination without legal evidence to for show it. Therefore, your immediate procurement of the affidavit will help you put this man behind counters in the police station for interrogation and jail sentence.


If your schedule cannot permit you to fly down to Ghana so urgently, then I will like to assist you by introducing our head of the legal unit of this bank, who is a senior advocate of Ghana (S.A.G) as he can represent you at the court of law to swear oath and procure the affidavit in your favour. If you want his contact then let me know immediately. Note that the change of account/letter of authorization stated that we should honour the request of Mr. John Tsai under 7days and should we fail, then the justice ministry will take action. Therefore, if you must stop this man from claiming your money, then you have 72hours to get this affidavit. Discontinue further communication with any office as I need to get so many people arrested. It is only on this note that I can transfer your money into your designated bank account as requested. if you are in compliance with what I have stated, then call me on my direct phone line : +233548294154 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +233548294154 end_of_the


Beneficiary is advice to fill correctly the beneficiary accreditation form attached to this mail for verification and documentation exercise.


Yours in service

John K Mensah
General Manager G C Bank
Direct line +233548294154

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