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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: "PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON FOREIGN PAYMENT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <engriagobir@live.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:04:55 -0700
Subject: PLEASE CLARIFY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY ( FACT FINDING COMMISSION ).
FROM DESK OF DR STEVE HOCKMAN

ATTENTION OF: BONAFIDE BENEFICIARY .

By legislative resolution reached on 12th May 2009 following the complaint and petition received by the Office of the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria(ALHAJI UMARU USMAN YARADUA) from foreign beneficiaries over the non-payment of their claims, this presidential commission on fact finding and foreign payment was inaugurated to release immediately all the payment that have received approval like yours.

We are pleased to inform you that we have verified every aspect of your payment and have submitted a written report to the President of Nigeria, the House of Senate and the Federal House of Representative sub committees on Finance and Foreign Payment. We are going to transfer your payment upon receiving your confirmation because we are confused on which account to make the transfer into as we received a Scotland Bank Account details from this man claiming to be the rightful beneficiary thereby contradicting your earlier account detail in our data bank.

PLEASE CLARIFY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

(1). Did you at any point transfer your right of ownership to one MR. THOMAS G. HENDERSON , to claim and receive the payment on your behalf?

(2). His claim was backed with a "Deed of Agreement "in his favour thereby indicating the fund destination to the following account.

Account name: THOMAS G. HENDERSON,
Account No: 01028732
Bank Name: BANK OF SCOTLAND,
Swift Code: BOFSGB2S are you aware of this?

You are required as a matter of urgency to confirm the legitimacy of the above claim and the reason for such change.In event you did not authorize such claim, please confirm to us immediately by way of application for contract/Inheritance payment stating your authentic account details, contract number and amount for the authentication and normalization of your claim file for immediate release to you by the mode of payment you desire.

All letters must be attention to the Chairman of the Commission Dr Steve Hockman. You are required to submit this authentication before the transfer will be effected as we are bound to recognize THOMAS G. HENDERSON'S claim and release the payment if we do not receive you submission to this enquiry as quickly as possible.

N/B:kindly provide the following information for more verification and also, it will be of good help for us to transfer your funds through the medium way of payment you desire as stated below:

A. Telegraphic Wire Transfer (TWT)
B. Diplomatic Fund Delivery (DFD)
c. Certified Bank Draft (CBD)
D. ATM MASTER CARD (AMC)

And also confirm the following information:

YOUR FULL NAME AND CORRECT ADDRESS(P.O. BOX NOT ACCEPTABLE)
YOUR YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER
YOUR BANKING CORDINATES (FOR TELEGRAPHIC WIRE TRANSFER ONLY)
YOUR AGE AND MARITAL STATUS
YOUR OCCUPATION AND POSSITION
A COPY OF YOUR ID CARD FOR IDENTIFICATION

AS soon as you provide all this informations, Strictly call me on my direct telephone number +234-1-4363184 and I will give you all the details for the immediate release of your outstanding payment.

Thanking you for your patient and understanding.

Your Sincerely,
Dr Steve Hockman
Chairman of the Commission

NB: This message supersedes any other message or information in respect to your payment. And Please for your information stop any further communication with any office or person and I hereby present to you below the list of the various offices, Agencies, Ministries and personalities that have either been used by the numerous corrupt Nigerian / bank officials impersonating the fast growing notorious gang of financial companies in and outside the country. (1) Governors/ Deputy Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) (2) Legal Department of (CBN) (3) Director of International/Foreign of CBN Remittance (4)Telex/Cable Department of central bank of Nigeria (CBN) (5) Attorney General of theFederation (6) Correspondence Bank of CBN Overseas. (7)Foreign payment committee CBN (8) Accountant General of the Federation (9) Contract Review, conversation and Debt Reconciliation (10) Society bank general (SBG) (11) Eco bank Nigeriaplc (12) New generation banks (13) World Bank Auditors (14) petroleum trust fund (PTF) (15) Ministry O


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