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 <nathanielcarterjr07@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 23:57:32 +0200
Subject: INT'L. OFFICE BENIN REPUBLIC

FOR RENT. BPH141 STREET KINGSTON
AVENUE COTONOU BENIN.
REF: MT89TQ
ISSUED DATE: 06/07/2015

Attention dear customer,

I am Dr,Jim Mark, department director Benin republic Cotonou. We wish
to acknowledge the receipt of your email in this money gram office and
the content is well noted, please friend you are advice to go through
this email carefully and make sure you read this note and understand
it before you comply with the contents okay.

We was instruction to send your Funds to your address in your City
money gram Money Transfer Office from here in Benin Republic Office
money gram Money Transfer by IMF international monetary fund and you
will be receiving $8,000.00 United State Dollar per day until you
receive all your total payment which is the sum of ( $4.800,000.00)
Four million Eight hundred thousand United State Dollar as scheduled
in our Office here.

With all due respect your funds under this office will be release to
you as it was written in your transferring file in as much as you pay
the needed payment of $85 for the transferring charges of your total
funds since the transferring charge of $25 will not be deducted from
your total as programmed by the Ministry of Finance and all the money
gram Money Transfer of the world Bank, IMF/UNO.

Again i want you to know that this is a legitimate transfer and that
is why you need to send the transfer charge at this money gram Money
Transfer so that you will be receiving your Fund without any delay or
problem. The cost of the transfer charge of your file payment which
was deposited at this money gram in your name is $85.00 United State
Dollar only.

Note: the reason why we need you to send us the $85.00usd only, is
that we tried to deduct the transfer charge fee out from your fund but
the minister administrator trust fund of Benin republic told us that
no one has access over your fund as it have been signed and stamped
that no money should be deducted until it gets to you to avoid any
misunderstanding because if any one has access to that it will involve
you loosing your fund, no one has to be trust

Once again note that there is nothing like any deceiving in this
transfer of your Fund and be informed that the amount which you will
be receiving each day is $8,000.00 once you send the $85.00 for the
transfer charge of your payment file today.

Be rest assure that as soon you send the $85.00 for transfer charge of
your file payment we must start transferring your Fund to you through
this money gram Money transfer department without any further delay
and this is the only fee you have to pay in this transaction as it was
written down already by the Federal Government of this Country that
mapped out the compensation for you.

Your first-payment of $8,000, has been made this morning being
6/07/2015 so you are required as a matter of urgency to send the
transfer charge of $85.00 immediately you receive this email now, so
that the $8,000.00usd being sent to you will be available in any parts
of M / G Office you go in your Country today and you will pick it up
immediately today without any delay or problem.

We are assuring you that there is no fee in future again and if there
is we will bear the cost of the fee. So you have to take me by my
words. This is the information you will use to send the $85.00 for
this department to release your Fund today.

Here is the information to send the fee through Money Gram / money
gram with this information's bellow.

Receivers Name........................TITUS IWU.


Country ......................... Republic of Benin.


City....................... COTONOU

Test Question ........................ What for


Answer .............................. Help.

Amount ........................ $85.00
Money Transfer Control Number .......................(M.T.C.N)
SENDER'S NAME ....................

Payment should be sent with the below information today and you are
advice to made the payment through Money Gram Money Transfer or
western union use our bank cashier name (ALEX BEN)
in sending the fee to us.Thank you

Your urgent email is highly needed once you get this email.

and contact with your full detail
Regards,
nathaniel Carter

Anti-fraud resources: