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: "United Nation" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <united.nationn@aeterna.ru>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 06:14:00 -0800
Subject: GOOD NEWS

From, Ms. Carman L.Young (United Nations Under Secretary General office of International      Oversight service) Internal Audit Monitoring and Investigations Div.
 
I'm contacting you regarding your compensation fund for the sum of US$1.5M in position
of the Bank in Nigeria. sorry for the long delay. this because there was a problem of ugly situations relating to the fund which was being resolved. because it was discovered that some persons and corrupt officials in Nigeria were attempting to continue benefiting themselves on the fund all this while by retaining it in a fixed deposits and reaping the interests, even trying to frustrate beneficiaries in the hope of them abandoning the fund completely, thereby constituting obstacles and delays over delivery of the fund to beneficiaries as supposed all this while. this dubious strategies was lately uncovered of by the United Nation review panel and all the parties involved in the act was brought to book and consequently persecuted. that actually was cause of the long delay in my corresponding to you. as I was waiting upon conclusion of the long proceedings. however'the problems have now been adequately resolved and taken control of by the United nation. you can now receive your compensation fund  without
 
note, the payment is still being made by ATM master card which you will use and make withdrawals of fund from at atm center near to you any part of the world. and as you know' the issued bank was not allowed the right of making any deduction on the fund by the delegates. this decision was part of advantageous measures taken by the UN delegates to avoid any mischievous occurrence over the payments. and for this reason beneficiaries are required to send the delivery money for their package and the ATM card for the exact approved amount of US$ 1,500,000.00 will be delivered to you, this was the agreement as decided by the united nation and has to be followed accordingly. so you need to send the required delivery cost of the ATM card package for the ATM card to be delivered to you accordingly.
 
I therefore advise you to provides me with your present receiving information's  e.g Your Full Names, your phone mobile number, and your current Address (were you want the ATM card to be delivered)  and to also provides the required fee. so that I shall contact the person incharge of the payments right away and provide him your receiving informations myself to enable him deliver the ATM card for your compensation fund to you without further delay.
 
 
Sincerely yours.
Ms. Carman Lapointe Young.
United Nation Secretary General for Internal Oversight Services.
 

Anti-fraud resources: