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: "Mr. Mike Davies (U.N)" (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 07:54:05 +0100
Subject: U.N COMPENSATION ONLINE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION (DIY)...

UNITED NATION COMPENSATION UNIT, IN AFFILIATION WITH THE INDEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT & TROPIC ALLIANCE BANK (IDTTA). Send copy of email to: operations12@myemail.com


Attn: U.N Beneficiary

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? You may not understand why this mail came to you.

We have been having a meeting for the past 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the then secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$850,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) This includes every foreign contractors and Inheritance claims that may have not received their Contract/Inheritance sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc.

Your name and email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team of Economic and Financial Crime Commission observers and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to contact Mrs. Juliana Nnaemeka of the Independent Development & Tropic Alliance Bank (IDTTA), as she is our representative in the African region where your payment file is allocated, contact her immediately for the release of your fund through the IDTTA ONLINE TRANSFER payment method. When you contact her, a USERNAME and PASSWORD will be provided to you to enable you LOGIN to your account and make withdrawal of the United Nation Compensation amount by yourself for security reasons.

Therefore, you should send her your full Name and telephone number/your correct contact address, your age, sex and occupation. The United Nation is releasing these funds to foreign beneficiaries through Online Payment for security reasons and to enable you make withdrawal by yourself to avoid fund diversion.


Contact Mrs. Juliana Nnaemeka immediately for your Online Account Username and Password:

Mrs. Juliana Nnaemeka
Manager Foreign Operation
Independent Development
& Tropic Alliance Bank (IDTTA)
Telephone: +234 81 39590241
Tel/fax: +234 1 7732239
E-mail: operations12@myemail.com



Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hoping to hear from you as soon as you make withdrawal of your fund.


Good luck and kind regards,

Making the world a better place



Mr. Mike Davies
Personal Assistant To

Dr. Ban Ki-Moon

Secretary (UNITED NATIONS).

Private Tel: +447-0240-14912

Anti-fraud resources: