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.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Enny Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <unitednationdevelopmentprogramme@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:04:08 -0700
Subject: Instant payment via ATM card notification from U.N.D.P

>From the desk of
Dr. Enny Williams
Foreign Settlement Dept.
United nation Development
Email:unitednationdevelopmentprogramme@msn.com
Tel:+2348056012202


Instant payment via ATM card notification
Your name and your contact details was given to this office in respect of your total inherited/contract sum owed to you which you have failed to claim because of either non-compliance of official processes or because of your unbelief of the reality of your genuine payment.
We wish to bring to you the solution to this problem.

Right now we have arranged your payment through an ATM card payment centers, That is the latest instruction from the president of the Federal republic of Nigeria (Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'adua. GCFR)
This card center will send to you an ATM DEBIT Card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, so if you like to receive your fund in this way, Please let us know by contacting us back and also send the following information as listed Below.

1. Full name
2. Phone and Fax number
3. Home Address
(P.O Box not acceptable)
4. Your age and current occupation
5. Attach copy of your identification

We have been mandated by the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'adua. GCFR) parliament to issue out $4.6 million as part payment for this fiscal year 2009. Also for your information, You have to stop any further communication with any other person (S) or office(S) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.
Note that because of impostors, We hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (ATM-227) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as your subject.
Wait For Your Expedite Response.

Kindly send your first reply and the required information to this email box (unitednationdevelopmentprogramme@msn.com)

Yours In Service,
Dr Enny Williams
Foreign Settlement Dept.
United nation Development

Anti-fraud resources: