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: "Central Bureau of Interpol" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mark_logan@mail2mark.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:24:14 +0100
Subject: NOTIFICATION

================================
UK National Central Bureau of Interpol
Headquarters
SE11 5EN London, United Kingdom (gb)
================================
Attention.

We recently arrested a group of West African fraudsters operating here in London, and we have reasons to believe you have been one of their numerous victims. A thorough search of the computers arrested with the individuals and their confessions during interrogation has revealed to us that they have duped you before.

We further discovered that these individuals have been illegally extorting money from innocent people on the internet through Loan scam, Inheritance scam, and Lottery scam and have been demanding money from innocent people for purported claims of the said money. They operated with a fake Bank and courier names and a lot of people have fallen victims to them in the past 3 years. They were arrested 4 months ago and few were also arrested last week when they attempted to defraud an American citizen of $1.2m USD. The known assets of these Fraudsters have been confiscated and their Bank Accounts frozen, the recovered funds are now in custody of the Recompense Committee and will be used to pay back for the cost of compensation to the victims whom they defrauded.

As one of the victims whom they defrauded you are eligible to claim back your money, from the Recompense Committee set up by the British Government to ensure that properly identified scam victims are adequately compensated from the $3bn allocated compensation loan from the World Bank

We have already initiated proceedings on your behalf with the Recompense Committee to ensure that you get back your money plus compensation for the financial and emotional stress you and your family went through because of the fraud. In conclusion, the Recompense Committee agreed to pay you back your money plus compensation of 5,000.00 GBP, thus what you will receive is a total of 84,000.00 GBP.

Please contact the Protocol Officer of the Recompense Committee so that they will start preparing your payment file, after which they will pay you the sum of 84,000.00 GBP either via Check or bank transfer. See below the contact information of their protocol officer and contact him with your details information immediately.

NAME: RAYMOND ANTON
PHONE: +44 701 118 2849
EMAIL: raymond.anton@live.com

You have been advised, so go ahead and contact the Mr. Raymond Anton immediately.

Greetings,
Inspector Mark Logan

Anti-fraud resources: