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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: "Patrick Agu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <www.officefile002@e-mail.ua>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:28:14 -0400
Subject: WHY IS YOUR FUND NOT YET TRANSFERRED TO YOU???

Dear Beneficiary,

After sending and paying much bills for your funds to be released and transferred or paid to you, and been contacted be different financial and security agents as regards to your funds, WHY IS YOUR FUND NOT YET TRANSFERRED TO YOU??? Have you asked your self this question? I am Mr. Patrick Agu Remittance director Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Please come up to claim back your fund and all you have lost to impostors as regards to your fund payment. I cannot keep it further as my conscience reminds me of my duties as one who believers in equity and fair play, my boss(Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) and some of his colleagues from several other ministries who are assigned with the duty of transferring your fund to you have conspired together to divert your fund to another account and the strategy they employed was by demanding several charges from you which you have already paid some and left some unpaid, all the demands are illegal just to frustrate you to abandon your payment for them, they are currently working with fake finance minister, Attorney General of the Federation and some commercial bank chief executives in order to perfect this evil activities.

He has counterparts in almost every country like United Kingdom, United States, Spain, Holland, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia and India and almost all countries of Africa. As this will then open an avenue for them to tag your payment as an unclaimed payment and will have it transferred to their own coded account overseas.

As a matter of fact,(Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) the Executive Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and his colleagues instructed me to change your payment details online with the one they have just nominated for immediate transfer but I refused as my mindset does not accept such evil. Note that they will frustrate you for ever if you continue dealing with them because they will never do the right thing since the quest for too much worldly gains has blinded their sense of reasoning.

This USD$7,500,000,00 will be transferred to their private account if you further delay. If you are willing to get your payment direct into your account or through any other means, call or email me and reconfirm your account particulars and other related information's but if you chooses other legitimate ways let me know and forward your contact details to me immediately upon the receipt of this message.

At the receipt of this letter kindly call me or you forward your confidential cell phone number to me but don't expose this secret, even to those you are currently dealing with in respect of your payment both local and international and note that they are all agents working for the CBN Executive Governor (Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) so stop communicating with them henceforth or you will remain frustrated in their cage, they have contacts all over the World but as far as I am concerned, your payment will not be tampered with.

Please if you're not interested do not bother to reply; otherwise your prompt response will do you a lot of good by having the right things done in your payment Fund Release Order Documents which was regularized by unknown crooks.

You should have asked why after all the series of fees you paid yet the transaction was still not concluded, it was a deliberate act to frustrate you out of the business.

Looking forward to your immediate response. For further clarifications, do not hesitate to call me on this number: +2348073884458.

Yours faithfully.

Mr. Patrick Agu
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

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