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: "Mike Rooney" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <goldmeierg@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:41:09 -0700
Subject: BANK GUARANTEE

Dear Sir,

We are direct providers of Fresh Cut BANK GUARANTEE, STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT (SBLC), MEDIUM TERM NOTE MTN, Bonds and CDs which we have specifically for lease. We do not have any broker chain in this offer or get involved in Chauffeur driven offers. We deliver with time and precision as set forth in the agreement. You are at liberty to engage our leased facilities into trade programs as well as in signature project(s) such as Aviation, Agriculture, Petroleum, Telecommunication, construction of Dams, Bridges and any other turnkey project(s) etc. Our terms and Conditions are reasonable.

Find below our terms and procedures:
DESCRIPTION OF INSTRUMENTS:

1. Instrument: Bank Guarantee (BG)/SBLC (Appendix A)
2. Total Face Value: Eur 10M MIN and Eur. 5B MAX (Five Billion USD).
3. Issuing Bank: HSBC London or AA rated Bank in Western Europe or USA.
4. Age: One Year, One Day
5. Leasing Price: 6% of Face Value plus 2% commission fees to brokers to be shared 50/50 between the brokers on both leaser/lessee side
6. Delivery SWIFT TO SWIFT.
7. Payment: Wire Transfer.
8. Hard Copy: Bonded Courier within 7 banking days.

PROCEDURE:

1. Leaser and Lessee execute, sign and initial this Deed of Agreement, which thereby automatically becomes a full commercial recourse contract.
2. Within 3 days after both parties sign the Agreement, Leaser will issue a signed and sealed Corporate Refund Recourse Undertaking to the Lessee guarantying to refund Lessee all the cost incurred by lessee for the bank transmission charges.
3. Within 3 working days after Lessee receives Leaser's signed and sealed Corporate Refund Recourse Undertaking, Lessee will make payment by wire transfer into the Leaser's bank account for the bank transmission charges for the BG/SBLC MT760 swift transmission to Lessee's bank account.
4. Within Three (3) banking days after confirmation of receipt of payment of the bank transmission charges for the BG/SBLC MT760 swift in Leaser's bank account, the Leaser will deliver the BG/SBLC via bank confirmation of swift BG/SBLC MT760 to the Lessee's bankers including the hard copy of the BG/SBLC via bank bonded courier in Seven (7) banking days.
5. Lessee pays Leaser the leasing fee and the brokers their commission fees not later than 7 banking days after the BG/SBLC hard copy is received and confirmed at lessee's bank. Should Lessee default to pay the leasing fees to the leaser and the brokers commission fees as agreed after 7 banking days of confirmation of BG/SBLC MT760 in lessee's bank account, Leaser will instruct the issuing bank to put a claim on the BG/SBLC thereby forcing the Lessee's bankers to return the BG/SBLC MT760 to the issuing Bank.

Regards,

Mike Rooney

Goldmier Finance Services

Anti-fraud resources: