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: "SUSAN WHITE,CITI BANK NEW YORK." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pedozie.presidency.finance@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:06:58 -0800
Subject: CITI BANK NEW YORK WIRE TRANSFER ADVISE.

CITI BANK OF NEW YORK.
111 WALL STREET,NY.
Customer Service:253-3907037.


Dear Sir.

CITI BANK NEW YORK FUNDS TRANSFER CREDIT INSTRUCTIONS OK.


Furtherance to payment notification order (RELEASE#XX-YBF) received from United States Treasury Dept under the instruction of Mr. Timothy Geithner,we wish to inform you, having programmed your fund via our swift wire transfer disket system (SWTDS) and having carried out our investigation viz-viz. It is imperative you re-send immediately your account information to avoid error on transmission, quoting the above payment notification order to enable us Citibank to release your fund into your account being the official bank Authorized.our ordering customers the Nigerian Government through the office and instructions of Dr.Philip Edozie,i wish to inform you that we have programmed your funds transfer via our swift wire transfer diskette system(SWTDS) into your nominated bank account or through CITI Bank ATM Swift Visa Card,please reconfirm the following to our bank for urgent payment as instructed by Philip Edozie in Nigerian whom we only trust and take instructions from in Niger
ia for your immediate transfer as


1) Your full Name:_______
2) Your full Address:__________
3) Your Contact Telephone and Fax Number:____________
3) Your Profession, Age and Marital Status:________________
4) Any valid form of your Identification/Driven License:____________
5) Bank Name:______________
6) Bank Address:___________
7) Account Name:___________
8) Account Number:___________
9) Swift code:__________
10) Routing Number:___________

Note: Citibank will not be held responsible if your total fund is placed as un-claimed fund by financial authorities, due to delay,based on the reports we have received, any office/person informing you that your fund is in any other bank outside Citibank New York is nothing but a scammer beware!!

Meanwhile you are urgently requested to call Dr.Philip Edozie in Nigeria on his direct telephone number 234-7033206328 and ask him to release you your Presidential International Transfer Pin Code Numbers which is what you will use to access and withdraw your funds from your bank account or your ATM Card as you may wish,the above Transfer Code is what our bank will use to send telex to your bank once we credit your account with the sum of US$2,5Million (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) as instructed to our Bank,reconfirm the above details with the Presidential International Transfer Pin Code Numbers which Philip Edozie will release to you when you call him and we will within 2hours release the above sum to you without delays,Philip can be reached on this email as well: pedozie.presidency.finance@gmail.com but it will be better you call him on phone for the Code to avoid delays.

Urgently waiting for the requested details for your transfer to be effected without delays in your favour and advise if you wish to be paid the above sum via CITI Bank ATM Master Card

Yours faithfully,

Ms. Susan White.
Foreign Operations
Citibank NY.


Anti-fraud resources: