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: "DR RICHARD LONG" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <xtrnlffrs@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 07:04:49 +0100
Subject: RE: ATM CARD

Northern Rock Bank Plc London
Northern Rock Heights
LSE Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE UK
PHONE +447012975750
Email ( xtrnlffrs@gmail.com )

Good Day,

This is to let you know that we have received an instruction from the United Nation by orders of the Ministry of Finance, London,UK to release your Approved payment of US$5.5 Million Dollars via Northern Rock Bank ATM VISA CARD which you will use to withdraw your US$5.5 Million Dollars from any ATM Machine in any part of the world.

I must congratulate you for been approved for the payment and assure you that Northern Rock Bank ATM VISA CARD number 5274783644673648748; has been approved and upgraded in your favor this morning. The amount upgraded in the ATM CARD is US$5.5 Million Dollars and your secret pin number will be issue you upon your response. Right now, Invitation have been extended to you to visit Northern Rock Bank for collection of your ATM VISA CARD and PIN NUMBER so that you can activate it by yourself and start withdrawing funds from any ATM Machine in your country but the amount you can withdraw in a day is $10,000,as we have programmed it.

Alternatively, if you are unable to visit Northern Rock Bank Plc London for collection of your ATM VISA CARD and PIN NUMBER, you must therefore apply for the ATM VISA CARD and PIN NUMBER to be sent to you via diplomatic courier service at your own expenses by offsetting the following payments such as;

1) Shipment fee of the ATM VISA CARD to your address amounting to US$175.00.
2) Insurance Coverage of the ATM VISA CARD amounting to US$252.00.

Both payments totaling the sum of US$427.00 must be paid to enable us ship the ATM VISA CARD to your address to enable you start withdrawing your US$5.5 Million Dollars from any ATM machine in any part of the world. This ATM VISA CARD must be insured so that it can get to you without any problem and diversion. This is because the ATM CARD that can be use to withdraw funds from any ATM Machine in every part of the world.

So, if you cannot come to Northern Rock Bank for collection of your ATM VISA CARD, you must therefore kindly go right now and send this shipment and insurance fee of US$427.00 via Western Union Money transfer or money gram transfer.

As soon as the fee is received, we shall immediately dispatch the ATM VISA CARD to you and it will take only 2 days to arrive to your address to enable you start withdrawing funds that same day from any ATM machine nearest to you.

Thanks for your understanding and waiting for your quick reply.

Yours in service.

ATM Manager,
DR RICHARD LONG.
Northern Rock Bank Plc London
PHONE +447012975750
Email ( xtrnlffrs@gmail.com )
Make sure that you contact on above email

Anti-fraud resources: