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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: "IN REGARDS TO YOUR PAYMENT.1" <daviswilliams7@gmail.com>
Reply-To: daviswilliams47@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:57:25 +0600
Subject: IN REGARDS TO YOUR PAYMENT.

IN REGARDS TO YOUR PAYMENT.



This is in regard to outstanding payment,

I am Mr DAVIS WILLIAMS, the director of international Transfer and
Investigation, the ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND and his Decision Making Body,
the Executive board of directors, has directed me to contact you without
any further delays in regards to your long awaited payment which has been
under attack for some time now, i am sure you will be very confused at
this point but we are doing all within our power to ensure that your
amount is not released to the wrong person.



we have approved all outstanding debts owned to Foreign beneficiaries by
the British government in this 1st quarter of this Fiscal year 2010.This
decision was taken based on the abnormities and inability of the release
of your long awaited fund by our BANKS to Release your fund into your bank
account whereby it was discovered that some Directors of the bank were
diverting foreign beneficiaries payment to another account of their choice
overseas. In view of this, during our investigation I found out that an
account was submitted to divert your fund to a Germany account. Below is
the account submitted and I want you to confirm if you are aware of the
new development because we are about effecting payment to the account
stated bellow today.



Beneficiary: CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA

Bank: FRANKFURTER BANK

A/C No.: 367840545

Code: 50050201



Finally, be informed that a payment instruction has been issued and
Forwarded to the Treasury Department of the ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND In
favour of you and your company for immediate release of your fund to the
account above without any further prejudice. But there is no way We can
approve the fund to the above account without you confirming if you Have
changed your account for your fund to be transfer to the Beneficiary:
CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA BANK ACCOUNT IN GERMANY.



Contact me immediately for further clarification to know if you have
Giving instruction to transfer your fund to the above account today. On
behalf Of the entire management of the (RBS), we are congratulating you in
advance and if you fail to contact this office on or before 24hrs from now
then we will now wire the fund to the German account.



Thanks for your co-operation.

Waiting for your urgent response

Yours faithfully

Mr DAVIS WILLIAMS.


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