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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: thebritishfinancem@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 06:56:22 +0200
Subject: THE BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT (reply urgently)

THE BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT
8th floor ellerman house,12-20 camomile street,
ec3a 7jp, United kingdom.
LONDON, ENGLAND.
Tel:/fax;+447035900687
Email;thebritishfinancem@yahoo.com.ph
>From the Desk Of Mr. Peter Marriot.
Office Of The Director,
British Finance Monitoring Unit.
London, England.

Attention:

Be inform that it has come to our notice that a huge sum of money has been
credited in your name for transfer and is currently floating in the
international banking community.
Under the stipulated Law of the Government of Great Britain and other
member countries of the United Nations, any huge amount of money that has
been found in the international computer data system waiting to be
transferred without claims for a period of 6 months or less, shall be
confiscated and forfeited to the United Nations account .
We do hereby ask you to contact this office immediately for ratification
within the 3 days of this notice by forwarding to us all your current
information including your direct telephone number and postal address
where your original payment release documents will be send to you in order
for us to confirm your personal receipt of this fund or consider your fund
confiscated.
Be informed that as soon as we receive your current data then we will
endorse with the legal preparation of your payment release documents and
immediately instruct our authorized Bank of International Settlement (BIS)
to release your funds by forwarding your file to them for immediate
payment consideration.

FIRST NAME:
LAST NAME:
SEX:
AGE:
FULL ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:

TEL / MOBILE: +:-------------------------------------------------------------------

I....................................................hereby declare that the
above DATA are true, and in case of any unforeseen circumstances.

We appreciate your urgent co-operation. OFFICIAL USE ONLY BY THIS OFFICE (BFMU)

Verified by: ------------------------------ Confirmed
by:------------------------------
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Peter Marroit
The Director
British Finance Monitoring Unit.
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: THIS COMMUNICATION AND ITS ATTACHMENTS MAY CONTAIN
NON-PUBLIC, CONFIDENTIAL OR LEGALLY PRIVILEGED INFORMATION. THE UNLAWFUL
INTERCEPTION, USE OR DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INFORMATION IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU
ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, OR HAVE RECEIVED THIS COMMUNICATION IN
ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY THE SENDER IMMEDIATELY BY REPLY EMAIL AND DELETE ALL
COPIES OF THIS

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