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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: "Mrs. Suzan martinez" <mrs.suzan.martinez4@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:48:47 +0100
Subject: Re: Immediate Remittance Of Your US$2M Interest Payment Bit By Bit
Without any Hitch


*First Commercial Bank London29 Wilson Street, London, EC2M 2SJUnited
KingdomTel: +44 701 114 7081 Fax: +447005-931-006*

*Re: Immediate Remittance Of Your US$2M Interest Payment Bit By Bit Without
any Hitch*

*Sequel to our board of directors meeting recently which your file was
reviewed that sometime ago in our bank, your inheritance fund was brought
to our bank from Ecowas and after some period, they call the fund bank to
their treasury in World Bank. For the period of time this money was in our
bank, it generated an interest of US$2Million, which we considered your
long suffering as we have the knowledge that you have not receive a single
cent from your inheritance fund from Africa rather than paying for this or
that due to corrupt government and bad bank officials in Africa and we have
decided to pay you this US$2M to console your suffering in their hands.*

*As you know very well how monitored it is for fund transaction above
US$500,000.00 around the globe and the circumstance surrounds it. We have
concluded plans to be crediting your account bit by bit of US$400,000.00 on
each transfer. All you need to do now is to reconfirm your bank account
information’s where the fund will be transferred with your mobile telephone
number.*

*Note; we have only 10 working days to complete the transaction.*

*Regards,*




*Mr. Peter HalfordDirector of OperationInternational Remittance
DepartmentFirst Commercial Bank*


*Tel: +44 701 114 7081 Fax: +447005-931-006E-mail: *
*mrpeterhalford526@gmail.com* <mrpeterhalford526@gmail.com>

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