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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: francis edward <francis_edward04@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:43:32 +0000
Subject: Payment Circuit Unit & Monitoring Lagos Liaison office,


Payment Circuit Unit & Monitoring
Lagos Liaison office
Presidency
Tel: 234-806505-8332

Attn Sir,

We write to inform you that National Adviser to the President (FRN) central bank CBN has forwarded your contract/inheritance file for investigation and payment, We are of the Payment Circuit Unit of the Presidency. This department is a creation of statute we are charged with the responsibility of giving approval and release of foreign exchange allocation upon application by the Banks through the Federal Ministry of Finance.


We are equally responsible for the monitoring of every inflow of fund into this country, in pursuant of this oversight function we discovered that you have already made some payments in pursuant of your legitimate demand for the release of your fund, whose approval in principle has not then been given, this unreceptive payment is in contravention of the rule governing payment release as the government has done to reduce exploitation of fund beneficiaries, be informed that the payment so far made cannot aid the release of your fund and therefore ask you send to us proof of payment to enable retrieve it and send back to you.

Note that fund outflow must be approved before release will be effected, upon approval the releasing authority will deal directly with beneficiaries to the exclusion of intermediaries, who have always been a source of embarrassment to this government before of their exploitative inclinations.

You are warned to desist from making further unauthorized payment as this government can not be held liable for any loss of fund to any third party as your fund will come to you directly through government accreditation foreign dealing banks.because approval to that effect has now been given.

You are thus required to forward your banking coordinate directly to this office include your direct telephone number, for onward remittance of the approved fund to your account,

I wait urgently to hear from you,

Yours sincerely,

Mr Francis Edward

Payment Circuit Unit & Monitoring
Lagos Liaison office,


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