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: "Payment Office" <alert@un.com>
Reply-To: mg.jimnolan@yandex.com
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:12:37 -0800
Subject: [Hello]Good News About Your Fund!

Hello Dear,
How are you today? Hope all is well with you. I am writing to inform you that the reason why you did not receive your $2.5M USD for a while is that we lost your contact and it was on Friday morning last week that we found your payment form in our office and from there we got your email address to reach you now.

After the last meeting held with the Federal Ministry of Finance concerning this matter, The Finance Minister gave order to transfer your fund through Money Gram money transfer $5000.00 3 times per day that means you will be receiving $15,000.00 each day until your payment is over. But meanwhile be informed that each of the transfer bears charge of $63

Now, the fund was handed over to the Money Gram Office this morning to start transferring your fund immediately. Note that you will be receiving $15,000.00 each day and first payment of $5000.00 will come to you in the morning by 9:30 am while the last payment of the day will come to you at 5: pm in evening.

Below is the information to contact Money Gram office and you are advised to contact them immediately you receive this email and also reconfirm your information to them to enable them release the necessary information for you to receive your fund without making any mistake on it.

Here is the information where you will send the $63 fee using moneygram or western union:

Recivers Name; LUKE OKOCHA
Country; Benin Republic
City; Port Novo
Amount;$63
Ref#.............
Senders Name...............

Contact Person
Mr Jim Nolan.
Email: moneygram.jimnolan@gmail.com
Phone +229 9994 4866

Thanks,
MR TONY HUBERT


Anti-fraud resources: