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"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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Atlantic Bank" <michaelsmith@newyorkcommercialbank.com>
Reply-To: 71michaelsmith1@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:00:31 -0800
Subject: Your Urgent Confirmation Is Required Over Your Payment Claim.

ATTENTION: THE BENEFICIARY

Dear Sir,

My name is Michael Smith and I work in the wire department of the Atlantic Bank of New York,15 Maiden Ln, New York, NY 10038, United States branch.

We have just received the directives from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) due to the Suspicious Activity Report they received to what seem to be an endless claim of some money under your name, we have been directed to investigate the claim and if indeed you have such funds to claim, we will process and remit such into your provided bank account.

Do also note that our bank as a financial service organization under the strict regulations of the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (or BSA, or otherwise known as the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act) must comply with Red Flag regulation, since your claim is over Ten Thousand United States Dollars, we may require you to submit some supporting documents to backup your claim (if/where necessary) to detect and prevent money laundering or any other kind of financial crimes globally going on in the world today.

We will contact you for further updates as soon as we have concluded our investigation/findings;we sincerely apologize for the delays in getting the funds cleared into your provided bank account. Kindly confirm if the bank details stated below is the bank account where you want the funds credited into.

Bank Name: U.S Bank Trust, N.A, MN;
Swift Code: USBKUS4TCOR;
Routing #: 121122676;
Account Number: 153459581457;
Account Beneficiary Name: Richard B. Salazar;
Beneficiary Address: 5021 Laguna Blvd, Elk Grove, CA 95758.

Regards,
Michael Smith.
Atlantic Bank of New York, 15 Maiden Ln, New York, NY 10038
Telephone: 0012122030063

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