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.

 

 

Fraud email example:

From: "promonl121@ommail.com" <promonl121@ommail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:02:14 -0500
Subject: ROYAL AMSTER LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.

ROYAL AMSTER LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM
BERGNNA-STRAAT N° 21
267890 AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS.
FROM: THE DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION DEPT.

SECURITY FILE NO:DL/678921/C11.
REF: ICL/4245678609/LMR.
BATCH: ML/91663/BAN.

We are pleased to inform you that your email has been
selected a winner of the ROYAL AMSTER LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTION PROGRAMS held this year!!

Your email address attached to ticket number
023-56678230954, drew the
lucky numbers 7-14-21-42-49-59, batch number ML/91663/BAN.
and consequently won the lottery in the 1st category. You
have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of EURO
250.000.00 (Two Hundred and fifty Thousand Euro) in credited
to file Lottery Reference number ICL/4245678609/LMR. This
is from total prize money of Euro 1,000,000.00 shared among
the 4 international winners in categories B with security
file number:IL/FLW/12-C036789192.All participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 45,000
company email addresses and 80,000,000 individual email
addresses from Australia,Africa,New Zealand, America,
Europe,North America and Asia as part of International
Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now in custody of a financial
Security company insured in your FILE REFERENCE.Due to the
mix up of some numbers and names,we ask that you keep this
award strictly from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to your account. This is
part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.
This lottery program was promoted by our group of
philanthropist and Dutch Royal family here in Netherlands.
We hope with a part of you prize, you Will participate in
our end of year high stakes EURO 25,000,000.00 million
International Lottery.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary Agent:
Mr.Peter Gutman
Diamond Finance BV
Amsterdam,Netherlands
Phone: +31-617-582-414
Fax: +31-84-719-1553
Email:claimsagent1@tangana.com

Please be aware that your Paying Authority will Effect
Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, verifications and
validation provided by our
processing Agent; that would be designated to your file. For
due processing and remittance of your winning prize to your
designated account of your choice. Be informed that all
prize money must be claimed not later than two weeks after
the receipt of his notification. After this, all funds will
be returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, you are to contact Mr.Peter Gutman with
followings details below:

1. Your full names, telephone, contact address and
2. quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences
with us or our designated agent.
Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do
inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank
you for being part of our promotional Program.

Yours sincerely,
Ms.Linda Van Voss

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification

Anti-fraud resources: