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: "Mr. Jibril Aku" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jibriiaku2012@rocketmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:09:20 +0100
Subject: From the desk of:Mr.Jibril Aku

 
>From the desk of:
Mr. Jibril Aku
International Settlement Dept.
Ecobank
 
Dear,
 
The management of Ecobank has been instructed by the Federal Government to
release your Inheritance fund to you through ATM Master Card, which shall be
delivered to your house.
 
The sum of Ten Million, Five Hundred United States Dollars has been approved
for payment to you, and because this new developement you are advice to stop
every illegal communication you are having with any office or government
officials (as claim), so that we can successfully release your fund to you
as we were directed.
 
Your payment through our swift card payment center, which is the latest
instruction from the Federal Government. We shall send you an ATM card which
you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the
world, because the above stated sum has been loaded on the card pending the
receipt of your response.
 
In view of that, you are required to provide us with the below details for a
swift delivery of your card to you.
 
1. Full name
2. Phone and fax number
3. Address were you want them to send the ATM card to (p.o box not
acceptable) 4. current occupation 5. Attach copy of your identification The
above details being requested shall aid us make a smoth delivery to you, and
note that because of impostors, we are giving you this code as our code of
conduct (CARD-211), so you have to indicate this code when contacting us by
using it as your subject.
 
Yours in service,
 
Mr. Jibril Aku
International Settlement Dept.
Phone number.+234 8137535320
EMAILjibriiaku2012@rocketmail.com

Anti-fraud resources: