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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: johnson nana <johnsonnana22@msn.com>
Reply-To: <johnson_nan2005@yahoo.es>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 12:47:13 +0000
Subject: Dear Beneficiary,



Payment Advisory Board
United Nation Office
United Nation Buliding.
London United Kingdom.
ATTENTION:

Dear Beneficiary,
I am aware of several efforts to clear and release your contract payment/Inheritor but all of which had failed and had caused you both time and money due to the activities of irregularity and impersonators who infiltrate the system. In light of the above said, please be informed that we have floated a new disbursement strategy for outstanding payments for this 2009 fiscal year, which effectively and absolutely cancels the non-concluded payment proceedings of previous years.

The new payment strategy is in such a way that its execution does not involve Africa officials and this is to safeguard our foreign contractors/Inheritor from being victims of the manipulative and extortion tendencies of Africa officials. In this new Payment System, a lot of inputs have been made to remove every bottleneck that previously made many contractors/Inheritor unable to receive their payment during the past years.
To this effect, a fresh foreign exchange allocation for Three Million U.S. Dollars (US$3.000.000) covering a part payment has been made available for payment to you via ATM Value Card.We have started preparing your ATM Value Card, Pin Code, and Electronic Password which when concluded will be sent to you via DHL Express Courier service.

The reason for adopting this method is because we have come to realize that the major problem hampering the transfer of your funds to your bank account is firstly the man-made manipulation of Africa officials and secondly, the lack of proper legalization of the funds, which makes it impossible for the wire transfer to successfully scale through the United Nations and World Bank/IMF conditionalities for international fund transfers especially as required to guard againsttransfer of Terrorism funding and Money Laundering.
It is necessary you reconfirm the following details :

1) Your full names.
2) Address where you want us to send the card.
3) Phone and Fax numbers

As you may agree with me the processes of Legalising the funds appropriately are often techincal and complicated, and it is the major reason why you have not been successful in clearing and receiving your contract/ Inheritor payment.
This is why it has become paramount for us to engage the services of the Credit Undertaking Firm, who will get this done on your behalf. I can assure you that you will enjoy the benefit of their services, which will facilitate hitchfree transfer of your funds. Their job will also reduce the burden on you and will shield you from interacting with Africa and Japaneese officials most of whom are the actual impediments to your contract/Inheritor payment.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Johnson Nana.

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