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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: "ATM PROCESSING" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <atmprocessing@atmcard-center.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:11:32 -0700
Subject: ATMCARD PAYMENT

Dear Beneficiary.

Our Ref: Payment UN/AU/PC/ATM/957/10...

With reference to the meeting held by the representatives of World Bank, united Nations, African Union and the Paris Club in respect to your outstanding fund which has been delayed as a result of your inability to meet up with the payment which you were asked to pay and compounded by you, by still dealing with none officials which you suppose not to be dealing with.

It is very sad that until now you have not receive your fund and will like to informed you that all the above mentioned Financial organizations with the Ministry of Finance here, has met and agreed after their general meeting with the above mentioned organizations that Central Bank, will now issue you an ATM Master Express Card worth ($860,000usd) as part approved payment for you now.

'NOTE' that this arrangement was initiated by the above mentioned financial organizations after their meeting with the Minister of Finance for the part settlement of your contracts, Inheritance and compensation fund in order to redeem the bad image of African nations, You will now receive this your part payment without any interference or delay from all these fraudsters.

With this arrangement, it will be processed and send over to you which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM MACHINE worldwide as the Bank are interswitch all over the world, but the maximum is ($5,500 )per day., the card is being powered by Inter-Switch Afri Network.

So, as a result of the end of the season account reconciliation /external auditing for the end of June 2009, which has brought this mandatory solution concerning the immediate release of your part fund through these means (ATMcard).

So, you are advised to get in touch with the (Claims officer in charge below) and also to assist in the documentation and processing of your ATMcard File by filling the form below.

Full names...
Address...
Country.......
Zip Code...
Sex: ......
Age: .....
Marital status...
Occupation/Position...
Tel/House /private: .....

I Mr. / Mrs. hereby declared that, all the above information produced by me are correct ,Please be advised, that you will be required to pay the sum of $185.00 only for administrative, processing and handling charges.
.......................
Contact Person, Dr. Matthew Warren.
ATM Processing & Claim Departments.
Email: atmprocessing@atmcard-center.org
........................
We would also like to advise you in your own interest to put a STOP to any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid complicating matters in receiving your payment. We also advise that you should get back to us after you must have received your part fund to enable us update our records here.

Sincerely,

Sign By; Ms. Ann Morris.
Executive Secretary,
United Nations/ African Union.


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