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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: "Ms Roselyn Payne" (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:21:18 -0700
Subject: Attention Beneficiary,


SKY-BANK INTERNATIONAL
108 Canada Square
London Rd,E14 5HQ

Our Ref:-4C9X0UE3X
Your Ref: 35460021

Ref: Payment of $1.5 million approval.

Attention Beneficiary,

We received instruction few days from our correspondence bank in london
(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 your self But we are surprise this morning
when we are about to open your online banking account and 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 $1.5million) 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
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 lady 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, so that your fund value of $1.5million united state
dollars will be paid to you through online banking method. kindly Contact
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA.
Foreign Remittance Department
Reserve Bank of India
6, Sansad Marg,
New Delhi - 110 001, India,
Via-email:departmentsettlementunit@dgoh.org)
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 ACCOUNT.
Your Sincerely,
Ms Roselyn Payne
Sky-Bank International,

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