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: office file <officefile7896@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: office file <senatortundeogbeha1968@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 00:53:55 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Dear Sir,


 

Dear Sir,


I am Senator Tunde Ogbeha the new appointed Chairman in Government State  House

committee Payment and verification on foreign Depts. Republic of Benin.

Your file has been in my office since last week for an investigation,  then after my

investigation on your file I found out the cause of the delay over your payment and the

reason the fund has not been released to you after  all your effort.

Sincerely to the best of my investigation and the truth of the matter  of  the fund ,

your name was among those owned by this government. And I went deep and found out the

reason the fund has not be transferred to you.

I found out that you did not execute any contract to this government , win any  money

or inherited any Fund in here.

The simple truth there is that some officials here in the Government  wanted to use

your name to move this Fund out of the country to your account as a foreigner owned by

this Government, win or inherited some money here, but  the problem they have is that

they cannot be able to get the original documents of the deal, and the original

documents  of the transaction cannot not be obtain in any other  department except this

office  which I am heading

My main reason of contacting you now is that Since your name was among of  those owned

by this Government, I want us to finalized this deal, I  will assist you and guide you

on how the money will transfer directly to  your account without any problem, with

condition that you will keep the whole secret only for two of us.

Get back to me for more Information on how to finalize this deal with you and it is

risk free.


Regards
Senator Tunde
Chairman Government State House committee
Payment and verification on foreign dept

Anti-fraud resources: