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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: "Customer care Dept." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <customercaredept.rbi@dgoh.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:09:57 +0530
Subject: Your Ref: FcA426

RESERVE BANK OF INDIA..
6, Sansad Marg,New Delhi
110 001, India.
Office Timings: Working Hours
Weekdays :10:00 A.M to 5:45 P.M
Saturdays :10:00 A.M to 1:30 P.M.
Our Ref:TjK8G3
Your Ref: FcA426
        Ref: Payment of $1.5 million approval.       
 
Attention Beneficiary,
We received an instruction few days back from our correspondence bank (SKY-BANK INTERNATIONAL) to transfer your awarded payment fund valued sum of $1.5 million into your
Contract account which we are on the process to open an online banking account on your name and forward to you the account information so that you can access your fund into your
regular account in your country by yourself But we are surprise this morning when we are about to open your online banking account and we received another email from Ms Diane
L.McAllister whom claim to be your representative with a letter of trust certificate telling us that she's your next of kin and  you left an instruction to her for the claim of
your Deposited fund (One Million,Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) Here are the below account information she forwarded to us to transfer your fund into  her account.
The account which she forward to us as follow.
Bank of America St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Account Holder Name: Diane L. McAllister
Account No.003767127294
Routing No. 063100277
65 Jabotinsky St #2
Ramat Gan, ISRAEL 54224
Please, do reconfirm to us as a matter of urgency if this woman is from you and has your authority to receive your fund. If this lady is not your representative, you are requested
to fill and send this information for verification purpose only, so that your fund value of $1.5 Million united state dollars will be paid to you through bank to bank wire transfer.
FILL THE INFORMATION BELOW TO ENABLE THE AUTHORIZED BANK TO LIFT UP YOUR FUND TRANSFER TO  YOUR DESIGNATED BANK.
1. YOUR FULL NAME.
2. YOUR TELEPHONE.
3. FAX.
4. AGE.
5. SEX.
6. YOUR OCCUPATION.
7. YOUR ADDRESS.
HOWEVER, WE SHALL PROCEED TO ISSUE ALL PAYMENT DETAILS TO THE SAID Ms Diane L. McAllister, IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU WITHIN THE NEXT SEVEN WORKING DAYS FROM TODAY, WE WILL PROCESS
AND RELEASE THE FUND INTO Ms. Diane L. McAllister.
Your Sincerely,
Ms Roslyn Payne
Sky-Bank International.

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