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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: "Office of the President" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <executive1@presidency.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:47:25 +0100
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT IS READY

    THE PRESIDENCY
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
ASO ROCK VILLA-ABUJA
 
15TH AUGUST, 2013
 
FROM THE DESK OF: DR. JAMES MBU
(SPECIAL ADVISER TO THE PRESIDENT ON FOREIGN PAYMENT)
 
 
 
It might interest you to know that the Nigerian government has step up in making sure that we pay all debts own to individuals/companies. After our meeting with the American Business Community, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, Spanish Club and the EU Business Group on 9th May, 2013.They insisted that before they can continue to invest in our growing economy, we must pay debts own to private people/companies. Secondly, The International Monetary Fund(IMF) and the World Bank financial Monitoring Unit has insisted that before they allow further foreign investors into our economy, we shall do something to remedy bad financial situation pressed on many foreign nationals by Nigerian scam operators living in Nigeria and abroad. They stated that this Advance Fee Fraud has not only put millions of citizens of nations out of their businesses but also put them into serious bank dept.
 
Government of Nigeria has therefore agreed and mapped out huge sum of money to settle all dept owe to foreigners/companies by the Nigeria government and also pay some compensation to some of Nigeria scam victims according to its merit. Our investigators have short listed some names which includes yours to benefit from this payment gesture which is in two categories of either debt owe to the person/company by Nigerian government or a victim of scam through our citizens. We are writing you because we have received clearance notice from investigating agency on your clean bill of record.
 
Note, no illegal transaction, all original documents must be signed by all beneficiary. Dealings must be directly with the beneficiary. On your acceptance of all the conditions stated above, mode of payment system will be made known to you after filling and returning our recipient application form "NGDFXX 2013" to be forwarded to you after you have acknowledged receipt of this notification.
 
Regards,
 
Dr.JAMES MBU

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