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: URGENT NOTIFICATION <awaradmicro@gmail.com>
Reply-To: URGENT NOTIFICATION <awardnotificationuk@ovi.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:47:53 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: BE HAPPY, YOU ARE VERY LUCKY!!SEND REPLY TO
(awardnotificationuk@ovi.com)


 
 
Dear Our Esteem Winner,

CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!!CONGRATULATION!!!

Microsoft Co-operation Management Worldwide are pleasedto inform you
that you are a winner of yearly annual MS-WORDLOTTO LOTTERY conducted
in United State being the host of the event forthis present year MEGA
JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAM held on the, 24thSEPTEMBER, 2014. Your
email address was attached to ticket number214-056-278 with serial  
number S/N-01025 and drew the lucky numbers724-595-62-07-45 and  
consequently won in the 1st category. As aresult of this, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout ofGBP£1, 999.999.97 One Million Nine Hundred and
Ninety Nine, Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine PoundsNinety Seven Sterling  
payable in cash credited to file Reference No:MSNW-L/327015002/14.

All participants were selected through ourMicrosoft computer ballot
system drawn from a collation of frequentinternet users all over the
world from America, Europe, Middle East, Africa,Asia and Australia,  
as part of International Email PromotionsProgram, which is conducted annually to
encourage the use of internet and computersworldwide. Your fund  
(Cashier's cheque) has  been insured withyour Reference No:  
MSMW-L/327015002/14 and will be  ready fordelivery but in order for  
your cheque to be issued and insured in yourname and for you to begin  
your claim you are urgently required to providethe following information through email to Sir Brown Peters, ForeignService  Manager, London United Kingdom,

Kindly send the following information to yourclaim agent to
facilitate the release of your fund,


1) Your full names
2) Your full home / office address
3) Nationality
4) Direct Land/Mobile phone/fax numbers
5) Occupation / Age
6) Sex
7) Next of kin
8) Amount won
9) Lottery date

Please note that above detailed information willbe absolutely
necessary for the processing of your payment cheques,drafts or wire
transfers. Also this winning is valid for THREEWEEKS and failure to  
issue claims after this period  willautomatically void your payment.  
Remember to quote your ticket number, serialnumber and lucky number  
in your future correspondence and mostimportantly as  part of our  
security protocol you are to quote this securitycode MSW/JULY/SS07 to  
the Foreign Service Manager, this is to preventscam.

Congratulations once again from the entiremanagement and staff of
Microsoft Corporation to all our lucky winnersthis year and thank you
for being part of this Promotional lotteryProgram. Our special thanks  
and gratitude goes to Bill Gates of Microsoftand all his associates  
for alleviating poverty around the world throughthis promotion.

Contact No: Foreign Transfer Agent
UNITED KINGDOM MICROSOFT AWARD REPRESENTATIVEAGENT LONDON
Contact Person: Sir Brown Peters
Position: Foreign Service Manager, London UnitedKingdom
Tel: +447031747666
Fax: +448715033182
Email: awardnotificationuk@ovi.com

You are hereby advised not to disclose thecontent of this Prize Award
until your money have been remitted to you toavoid disqualification
that will arise from dual claim.

Signed By Dr. A. W. George]



Anti-fraud resources: