419 scam: United Nations Compensation Fund <budirem1@neostrada.pl> You Have A New Message

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "we advice you" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: United Nations Compensation Fund <budirem1@neostrada.pl>
Reply-To: citibnkinterplc1@gmx.com
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:29:03 +0800
Subject: You Have A New Message

Greetings to you,
SCAMMED VICTIM/ $900.000.00.USD BENEFICIARIES.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 $900.000.00.USD.

On behalf of the Malaysian National Sweeptakes Compensation Award,we
wish to inform you of the results of the comprehensive web email
search and wish to notify you as a beneficiary of $900.000.00.USD in
compensation as a scam victim. This is to bring to your notice that
we are delegated from the Malaysian National Sweeptakes Compensation
Award in World Bank to pay 150 victims of scam $900.000.00.USD each.

You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed
victims to be paid this amount.This Award was promoted and sponsored
by a conglomerate of some multinational companies in
asia,africa,europe and america as part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have
operational base. We advice you to keep your winning information
confidential until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to you as this is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme.

Do contact CITI BANK INTERNATIONAL BANK,CITI BANK for verification an=
d
release of your $900.000.00.USD that we have deposited with the
CITI BANK MALAYSIA.The account log on will be presented to you by the
bank in order to access the funds before releasing into your nominate=
d
bank account.You will transfer the funds into your nominated account
on-line as the CITI BANK MALAYSIA will provide the necessary
information to you. If you are willing to accept the funds, do
contact the Managing Director of the CITI BANK MALAYSIA, with the
following details:

You are to fill the appropriate form and submit to the bank.
[1] Full Names:________________
[2] Contact address______________________________
[3] Direct Telephone No: ___________________
|4| Occupation : ____________________________

Managing Director of the CITI BANK MALAYSIA
Name: Mr Abu Bakar Bin Saud
Email:citibnkinterplc@gmx.com

Yours Faithfully,
Dr. David Adams
Coordinator.
Malaysian National Sweeptakes Compensation Award=A9 2011

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam