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: "Mr James Gayver" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <compensation10@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 04:24:20 -0400
Subject: DEAR FRIEND, YOUR ATM MASTER EXPRESS CARD.

ATTENTION !!!! MY DEAR FRIEND

We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay you, your over due inheritance fund which you could

not complete the process of the released of your transfer Documentetion.due to fraudulent activities going on within the

world and we have been told not to give any body any information out because we have don some thing like that befor and our

BANK Login was Spam that is why we have be introteded not to give out any details all i no is that your inheritance fund is

real and all we are waiting for is just the Decument which you where ask to get and i dont want you to ask me any qouestion

any more about this again if you can get the document .


The World Bank, United Nations and Paris Club introduced this payment arrangement as to enable our Contract ,Winning

Prize,inheritance beneficiary to receive their fund without any interference. the ATM Master Express Credit Card was

contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLD WIDE.

The ATM MASTER EXPRESS CARD is credited with the sum of$5,500.000.00 USD(Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State

Dollars), it is already loaded in the Master Card which you can use to access your fund in any ATM Stand/location worldwide

and remember that the maximum withdrawal daily limit is Ten Thousand United States Dollars(US$10,000.00).
Kindly contact Dr Godwin Anderson with the below details in your response to this email.

CONTACT: Dr Godwin Anderson
DIRECT TEL # : +1646-801-7231
EMAIL: (compensation10@outlook.com )

1. Valid Delivery Address:
2. Full Names:
3. Direct Phone Number:
4. Occupation:
5. Age:
6. Sex:
Preferred Payment Method............... (ATM card / Cashier Checque)

Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from the (UPS) Website (WWW.UPS.COM). To confirm beneficiaries like you

who have received their payment successfully.


Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your Compensation Funds Award

worth the sum of $3.5 Million USD,

Understand that you will be liable for the delivery fee of your ATM Master Express Card to you with the courier company.
CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE.

Chairman Mainstreet Bank Limited,

Sincerely ,
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
World Bank President.

Anti-fraud resources: