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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: Barr Umenume Fidelis <barrumenumefidelis84@gmail.com>
Reply-To: barrumenumefide@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:55:10 +0100
Subject: Good day

--
*Hello,*

* My name is Barr Umenume Fidelis. I have been instructed by Dr. Eugene
Juwah, who is presently the Executive Chairman of the Nigeria Communication
Commission (NCC) to contact you in regard to a money transfer of
$10,688,000. *

* In November 2013 while working as the Commissioner for Licensing and
Consumer Affairs of the Unified Access Service Licensing Unit (UASLU) of
Nigeria Communications Commission(NCC), Dr. Eugene Juwah and some members
of the UASLU offered a Unified Access Service License to Mubadala
Development Company of the United Arab Emirates.The business portfolio
included the fifth and last spectrum in our Global System for Mobile(GSM)
telecommunications 1800 and 900 MHz bands price of $400 million U.S
Dollars.*

* Under the terms of the licence, Mubadala was required to pay the full
license fee of $400 million on or before the 21st of December,2013
including a further fee of $10,688,000 to a consulting firm called Alexio
Consults.*

* We the members of the UASLU that offered the license to Mubadala agreed
with Mubadala that the $10,688,000 was to be a compensation to me and my
colleagues for our role in offering Mubadala the spectrum license. Mubadala
accepted the offer and on the 21st December, 2013 paid the sum of $400
million into the NCC account while he paid the $10,688,000 into a local
account in a commercial bank for the consulting firm, Alexio Consults.*

* Though Alexio Consults did not exist at the time of the offer of license,
we have however registered this company locally as required by our laws and
have also perfected the strategy to transfer this money as Foreign fund
repatriation to a foreign firm.*
* Our present difficulty is that we are not allowed as serving civil
servants to operate foreign accounts. We therefore seek your assistance to
present your account as a foreign nominated beneficiary of Alexio Consults
so that the bank where the $10,688,000 is held will transfer this money
into your account.*

* We are proposing 20% for your role in the operation while 5% will be for
the expenses we may incur while processing the payment. The rest will be
for I and my colleagues. Please let me know your thinking as soon as
possible.*

* Warm regards,*

*Barr Umenume Fidelis*

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