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: "andrew paul shipss" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <andrewpaulshipss@myself.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 14:49:51 -0800
Subject: Attn: Fund Recipients

Attn: Fund Recipients,

I am Mr. Andrew Paul Shipps, a Banker and credit system programmer (GUARANTEE TRUST BANK ) London, United Kingdom. I saw your email address while browsing through the Bank DTC Screen in my office so i decided to contact you for obvious reason which you will have to understand.

I am sending this short message just to know if your email address is still functioning or not and if by any reason you receive this mail please you have to reply me back immediately so that I will enclose more details to you as I have a very important issues to discuss with you

Have a pleasant day

Andrew Paul Shipps
Tel: +44-161-375-1252
shipps@accountant.com

Anti-fraud resources: