419 scam: "CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!!.\"" <egobia_john@yahoo.cn> Dear E-mail Account Owner,

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.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!!.\"" <egobia_john@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: customerservice.com97@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:36:23 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Dear E-mail Account Owner,

Dear E-mail
Account Owner,

This message
comes from your (EMAIL
SERVICE
messaging admin
center to All Web-mail E-mail Account owners. We are currently improving our
Database and E-mail Account Center and creating more certainty for our Legal
Service clients. At this moment we are upgrading our data base so that there
will be more space for new customers and increasing the surf on the
Internet.

To prevent your
Email address not to bead-activated and to enable it upgraded, you need to
assist us by sending the information below to enable us upgrade it, so that your
email account status were fleet in our database as a very active, useful and
legal email account. Do send to us the below information to enable us upgrade
your Account, else your email account will lost in a short
time.

* User ID:
..........................
* Password:
........................
*Reconfirm
password:..........
* Date of
Birth: ..................
* Country Or
Territory: .............

WARNING!!!E-MAIL OWNERS who refuses to upgrade his
or her account within Five days after notification of this update will
permanently be deleted from our data base and can also lead to malfunctioning of
the client or user¡¯s account and we will not be responsible for loosing our
account.

Thanks for your
understanding as it is geared towards serving you
better.

Webmail Support Team
Warning Code:
ID67566343

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam