419 scam: "James Williams"<jameswill1950@yahoo.com> CONTACT DR DAVID SMITH FOR YOUR WINNING FUND!OODLUCK APŒë¸"

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447024067363 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- david_smith004@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "James Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <david_smith004@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:30:01 +0100
Subject: CONTACT DR DAVID SMITH FOR YOUR WINNING FUND!

BRITISH CANADIAN NATIONAL LOTTERY BC-49,
Unit 5, Tiger Court, Kings Drive,
Kings Business Park, Prescot,
Knowsley, Liverpool, L34 1BH

Attention Winner,

We wish to inform you of the lottery draws held on the Wed 25th of August, 2010 to declare the winners of the British Canadian National Lottery. This lottery scheme was held to bring awareness to the world, being that United Kingdom is Hosting the next Olympics in 2012.
You are therefore been approved the lump sum pay out in cash to the tune of? 600,000.00 (Six Hundred thousand British pounds Sterling)

Yourself, attached to Ticket number 00098, with Serial number 34209 drew the winning numbers 05 08 20 26 31 36 15, and consequently won the Lottery through a computer ballot system and your email address was gotten through United Kingdom Information Network Online (U.K.I.N.O) which is affiliated with the internet.

Winner. You can also confirm your winning numbers.
http://www.canada.com/life/lotteries/lottery_results.html

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 15.000 EMAILS from Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, Europe and Middle East and Asia as part of our International Promotions Program.

To begin your claim process, please contact your claims manager with Details below and also provide him with the requested information so that He can expedite the processing of your claims.

CLAIM FORM
NAME:
===========================================
COUNTRY:
===========================================
ADDRESS:
===========================================
CITY:
===========================================
STATE/PROV:
===========================================
ZIP/POSTAL/CODE:
===========================================
CELL PHONE:
===========================================
FAX NUMBER
===========================================
OCCUPATION:
===========================================
COMPANY:
===========================================
MARITAL STATUS:
===========================================
Gender:
===========================================
AGE:
===========================================
EMAIL:
===========================================
WINNING NUMBER:
===========================================
TICKET NUMBER:
===========================================

Dr David Smith
Claims Manager
Email: david_smith004@yahoo.co.uk
TEL: +44 702-406-7363
Fax: +44 701 119 6454

Congratulations From all Members and staffs of this program.
Sincerely,

Mr James Williams

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam