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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: "Agent Richard Hayes" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <benmac109@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 13:05:49 +0100
Subject: YOUR (FBI) CODE: FBI2ZUS/BAG04/CMMUS

33 Liberty Street New York,
NY 10045 , United States
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONETARY CRIMES DIVISION – FBI
Spies. Terrorists. Hackers. Pedophiles. Mobsters.
Gang leaders, money laundry, and terrorism, unsolicited
Consignments and serial killers.
( YOUR (FBI) CODE: FBI2ZUS/BAG04/CMMUS )

Urgent Attention: Beneficiary


I am special Agent Richard Hayes, from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intelligence unit; we have just intercepted Your Compensation Payment of $5.567, 000 million United States dollars in your name ,we are on the verge of moving them to our bureau head quarters. We started monitoring and checkmating movement of Payments after the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, many people are virtually involve in sponsorship of terrorism knowingly and unknowingly since they participate in unsolicited and security unchecked transactions which sometimes the aftermath effect of unclaimed funds becomes wheel power for terrorist sponsorship.

We have discovered the value is $5.567, 000 million United States dollars and the backup document bears your name as the receiver of the money investigations / interrogation carried out the payment which was due to you as unpaid Compensation Payment.Our priorities are tactically stated below. Some people have been victimizing over the years but our inception has corrected worst crime situations in and outside American.

Protect the United States and the rest of the world from terrorist attacks (see counter-terrorism);Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage (see counter-intelligence); Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes (see cyber-warfare); Combat public corruption at all levels;Protect civil rights; Combat transnational/national criminal organizations and enterprises (see organized crime); Combat major white-collar crime; Combat significant violent crime; Support federal, state, local and international partners;

We checked all legal documents and were about to release the Fund to your Account, when we found out that the funds lack two very important documents Legal Clearance Certificate and Fund Ownership Certificate which as a result, the funds was STOP until you provide those required compulsory demanded due process documents According to section 229 subsection 31 of the 1991 constitution in tax payment, your Payment lacks proof of ownership certificate and legal clearance certificate from the joint team of the IRS and homeland security, and there for, you must contact us for direction and advise on how to procure the certificates, so that you can be relieved of the charges of evading tax which is a punishable offense under section 12 subsection 441 of constitution on tax evasion and unsolicited movement of Payment to any country all over the world.

You are required within the next 72hours to secure those above mentioned certificates or face the legal consequence defined for such Payment infringement, to avoid interrogation and prosecution in the court of law for money laundry and sponsorship of terrorism. We have investigative jurisdiction over every crime both in and outside United States . Also, you must not contact any other bank or persons in USA the United Kingdom Canada or any part of the world for any payment, because your payment is presently under our custody here in United States of America . Please don’t respond to any FBI message without this security code (FBI2ZUS/BAG04/CMMUS). We shall direct you on the process of who to contact after extensive investigation.

Like I told you don’t respond to any FBI message without this Security Code (FBI2ZUS/BAG04/CMMUS) this is the real Code for any FBI Agent because of Scam/fraud any email without this code is a Scam for your information


Yours in service

Agent Richard Hayes,

Regional Director
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
Intelligence Field Unit
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington , D.C.
20535-0001, USA

Cc: CIA

Cc: HSC

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