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: "Wire Transfer OFFICE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bankboa.onlinebanking@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:40:06 +0100
Subject: Fund Transfer

Dear:Beneficiary,
 
I contacted you privately to inform you that the approved part payment of Us$8.5M in your favor has been programmed in our micro chips of compartmental central computer for further crediting into your nominated bank account.
 
However, we received a "Deed of Assignment" from one Mr. Marc .A. Wiener of USA who told us that he is your next of kin and that you died in a fire outbreak last week.
He has also submitted his account for us to transfer the fund to him which is as follows
 
BANK INFORMATION
North Fork Bank  
2050 Jericho Tnpk.Commack, NY  11725 
Account Number: 2051085880
Routing Number:  021407912
BENEFICIARY : Marc Wiener
His contact phone number is 1-516 316-3952
 
We want to hear from you before we can make the transfer to confirm if you are dead or not.
Yours truly,
Mrs.Linda Cook
Senior managing Director Security & Investigation
Bank of America Wire transfer Processing Division
+1 347 412 1306

Anti-fraud resources: