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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: drhchioma123@googlemail.com
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 05:03:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IS HIGHLY NEEDED.


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:henrychioma@ymail.com



- Central Bank of Nigeria Fact finding & special duties office Tinubu square, Lagos Tel:+234-1-762-6661, Attn: Dear Friend, I am Dr Henry Chioma, a senior staff with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).Iam writing you this letter because cool penny is better than millions of dollars in the air. it is better for one to live and die a poor honest man than a rich dishonest one. I and the chief security officer (cso) of our bank have arranged with an officer in computer section Engineer Chuka Iloh to bring out part of your total contract sum amounting to USD$10 million. why we did this is because according to information gathered from the bank's computer,you have been waiting for a long time to receive your money without success. as I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements of the cbn in respect of your contract payment, your problem is that of interest groups. a lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive fax and phone messages from different people in Nigeria everyday. also we found out that someof the officials of the parastatals have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money. The money is in two security-proof boxes weighing 110 kg each, that is220 kg for the two boxes, yesterday we went to four courier companies to make arrangements on how to ship them by courier to you. DHL, EMS, FEDEX,ISA all said that they must open the boxes for inspection because of the customs before shipment. this is something we want to avoid because the boxes were padded with machine. we told the courier company that the boxes contains photographic and film materials and when open will looseits efficacy. We did not declare money because couriers do not carry money.Today a friend of mine who is a diplomat disclosed to me that there is courier company they use to send diplomatic materials and information from one country to another. it has diplomatic immunity and their consignments cannot be inspected by any customs anywhere in the world.The name of the courier service is Dynamic express diplomatic courie service (DECS). I will meet them as soon as I have your go ahead order. the diplomat will help me so we do not have any problem. we have concluded that you must compensate us with five hundred thousand united states dollars (USD $500,000.00) as soon as you receive your money. to this effect, you will send us a promissory note for five hundred thousand united states dollar(USD $500,000.00) along with your address for sending the boxes by courier. please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if found out that we are using this way to help you.Do not ever tell anybody about this until you have your money. i want to help you because something in me is telling me that you are anhonest person. when you conclude this and you send our promise, we will help to ship the final part of your money to you. God be with us as we wait for your reply. Please do not fail to call me on telephone no.+234 1 7626661 Yours faithfully, Dr Henry Chioma, Director Fact-finding & special duties office,Central Bank of Nigeria


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