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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: FRANKLIN AMAECHI <frank.amaechi@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: franklin.amaechi@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:46:22 H0600
Subject: RE: YOUR PAYMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE NEW PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA

>From the desk of Mr. Franklin Amaechi
Federal Ministry Of Finance
5th Floor, Annex 3,New Federal Secretariat
Complex, Shehu Shagari Way, Central Area
Abuja-Nigeria.

Dear Beneficiary,

It was Resolved and endorsed by the New President of Federal Republic of Nigeria "Dr.Goodluck Jonathan and his new cabinet to offset all foreign contract and inheritance debts owned to foreign citizens from Nigeria.

Following the recent International summit held in switzerland,the UN,IMF and EU has unconditionally mandated Nigeria government to reconcile and settle those debts or face an International sanction.


Reports also revealed that many beneficiaries has been scammed in this country in the process to claim their contract/inheritance payments.

Sequel to numerous complaints and reports received all over the world,nigeria been known as the world No.1 corrupt and scam country,which president Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to clean up this impression in the International community.In this development,President Goodluck Jonathan and his government has mapped out a total sum of US$28,000,000.00 (TWENTY-EIGHT MILLION US DOLLARS) from the federal government treasury, to disburse among all verified and authenticated beneficiaries whose contract/inheritance payments has been held back unpaid.

The presidency has constituted an auditory committee to audit,reconcile and monitor the disbursement of the above mentioned amount to short-listed beneficiaries.The disbursement agreement goes thus: US$850,000.00 to each verified and confirmed beneficiary,as part payment of his or her debt.

This letter is to officially notify you that a "VISA ATM CARD Number 4083052100220044" has been processed in your favor for this payment. Your Personal Identification Number (PIN) is 9086.The VISA Card Value is 850,000.00(Eight Hundred $ Fifty Thousand Us Dollars Only),which must be delivered to your nominated address for onward withdrawal of your part payment of $850,000.00.

Meanwhile, during the processement of this VISA ATM CARD, we received an application from one “MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA” who claimed that he is your business associate here in Nigeria.

The said application from MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA reads that you are dead, and a documentation instructions was left for him to receive his payment when ever Nigeria government intends to pay his inheritance claim.With reference to his application, MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA instructed that all relevant documents/information regarding this claim should be changed in favor of him as the beneficiary, who is among the short-listed. He equally presented an account for bank to bank transfer of this payment ,which stated as follows:

Bank: FRANKFURTER BANK
A/C No: 367840545
Code: 50050201
Beneficiary: CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA

With the application filed by CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA, detailing that you are dead, we need to confirm the reality of his application, thus we decided to write this letter.You are hereby advised to reply to this letter today, proving that you are alive.

To avoid complications in this payment,you are expected to reply with the following data:

(1)Full names:

(2)Address:

(3)Country:

(4)Nationality:

(5)Phone #:

(6) Sex/Occupation:

Note, if we did not receive any response from you within the next 24 hours, we will believe that what MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA told us in his application is true and correct, we will proceed to ship the payment ATM CARD to him for withdrawals.

Your quick response with The above information will help this ministry to tackle this problems of double claims.



Best Regards.

Mr. Franklin Amaechi
Federal Ministry Finance(FMF)




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