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: "Mr. Stanley I. Lawson" <elena@mgu-print.ru>
Reply-To: bealife4god@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:11:42 -0800
Subject: Re: Important Message for You

FROM THE DESK OF
Mr. Stanley I. Lawson,
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)


Attn: Beneficiary,


During the auditing and closing of all financial records of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) it was discovered from the records of outstanding foreign payment with the Federal Government of Nigeria in the past years that your name is next on the list of those who will received their fund.

Due to allegations of corrupt practice against other Financial institutions in Nigeria, The Federal Government of Nigeria has appointed the Central Bank to effect all foreign overdue payment.Be informed that the Federal Government has Approved the release of $6.2M which has been in this bank for many years UNCLAIMED. this is because other Banks has been using the interest accumulated from your fund every year to enrich themselves without your knowledge. I want to help you POOL OUT this fund to your Bank account today using the easiest and quickest method which have not been known to you before.By this method an Online Domiciliary Account will be opened for you.

An Online domiciliary account is a secure account which we will open for you in our Bank and Credit your payment of $6.2M for further credit into your account, the essence of this Online Domiciliary account is to secure and protect your payment from being diverted by fraudulent people or making payment to a foreign account which do not belong to you, the greatest advantage is that you can instruct us to credit your nominated account bit by bit with small amount thereby saving yourself from the emberrasment of Financial Authority in your country who monitor large transfer due to current trend of terrorist.

Another beauty of the online domiciliary account is that you can retain the balance left in your account in our Bank and can also instruct us to pay out money to any bank of your choice in the world, or issue you an ATM Card which you can use in any part of the world when in a business trip.I hope you now understand the advantages of a Domiciliary account and why you need this account to receive your payment of $6.2M now in our Bank. You are advice to forward as a matter of urgent your Full name, direct telephone and Fax number and your contact address as we have started the process of opening the account for you.

All that is require of you is to Activate the newly opened Domiciliary Account with a minimum sum in line with Provisions of Section 2 Sub Section (iia) of Banks and Financial Act of 2001 which state that all Non Resident Account otherwise known as Domiciliary must be activated to make the account operational, while Sub Section (iib) do NOT permit any Bank official from making deduction from the payment to be deposited in the domiciliary account, which is $6.2M in your own case.

Call or sms me on +2349077429116 so that I will issue you payment release code which must be given to you personally on telephone strictly for security reason. This code is very important and is what you will use to confirm your payment,


CONGRATULATIONS.

Mr. Stanley I. Lawson,
Serving Director
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

Anti-fraud resources: