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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: "Sir. Paul Judge" <secretaria@ampformosa.com.ar>
Reply-To: sirpaulrjudge@outlook.com
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 06:22:58 -0700
Subject: Request

Hello,

Good Day to you and I hope this message meet you well.

I hope this mail meets you well. Before I proceed, I will like to introduce my self for better understanding, My name is Sir. Paul R. Judge, Non Indepent Executive Director with Standard Bank Group in South East Asia,one of the biggest independent financial institution, I am contacting you because I want you to assist me in receiving a deposit of one of our late client A Chinese National who died in 2005. Before his death he has a deposit of (Twenty Two Million Seven Hundred and Twenty Eight Thousand Four Hundred and Fourteen United States Dollars)in our bank. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

On July 7, 2005, series of coordinated terrorist bomb blasts hit the London Subways, resulting in the loss of more than 52 people and unfortunately our late client was among the people that died on that fateful day while he was in United Kingdom for a business meeting, all efforts to contact his relatives/family representatives turned unsuccessful, I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any his extended relatives but has been unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the internet, to see if I could locate any member of his family hence I contacted you as you have thesame last name with our late client.

His account where his deposit of (Twenty Two Million Seven Hundred and Twenty Eight Thousand Four Hundred and Fourteen United States Dollars)USD22,728.414.00 is no longer active and inoperative. My bank will declare the account unserviceable and thereby send the funds to the bank treasury if I do not present anyone as family representative or relative to our late client. I will seek your consent to present you as the relative or family representative of our late client since you share the same last name with the our late client so that the funds on the account can be paid to you then you and I can share the money for investment purposes in your country.

If you can handle this with me, I will want you to send me a reply with, (YOUR FULL NAMES: CONTACT ADDRESS: DATE OF BIRTH: OCCUPATION: MOBILE/HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER) to enable me submit to my bank immediately for the release of the funds to you as his relative and family representative.

Please I do not want any direct link between us, my official lines are not secured as they are periodically monitored please observe this instruction religiously, all legal documents and paper work will be released to you as soon as I receive your response with the required information.

Thank you and I hope to read from you,

Kindly send me all details to: sirpaulrjudge@outlook.com

Regards,

Sir Paul R. Judge,
Non Independent Executive Director,
Standard Bank Group.
South East Asia.

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