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.Mark David" <fail.office@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: w_u56@ymail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:45:24 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: ATTENTION CUSTOMER




  ATTENTION CUSTOMER
 
How are you doing today, We are writing from western union money transfer
deparment headquater here in Benin republic for your $1.2MILLION DOLLARS
shifted from our local post western union money transfer office to this our Headquater Department for urgent transfer to you,So now you are to reconfirmed to us your full contact detail and the name you will use in receiving your funds.Listenyou should be fast in sending the Informations because we want to discharged your funds today, it has been delay for long from our localpost due to some papers requested.
 
YOUR FULL NAME TO RECEIVE YOUR FUNDS
YOUR HOME ADDRESS==============
OCCUPATION==================== =
TELEPHONE NUMBER===============
DRIVER LICENSE OR ID CARD======
SEX=========================== =
MARITAL STATUS=================
COUNTRY======================= =
CITY========================== =
 
Forward the informations urgent so that by tommorrow morning we will
transfer your first payment which is $5000 usd.
 
REGARDS,
Mr.Mark David.

Hot Line Call; +229-99-37-60-03
DIRECTOR western union DEPATMENTa
INTERNATIONAL BENIN  REPUBLIC
Mr.Udor John
EMAIL-( w_u56@ymail.com )

Anti-fraud resources: