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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: "D.S.P Emmanuel" <fbi.directorofny@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dspemmanuel@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 00:15:44 +0100
Subject: RECOVERY OF DIVERTED ATM DEBIT CARD

NIGERIAN POLICE FORCE
Nigeria Police Force Headquarter
Ken caleb House
Obalende Ikoyi
Lagos State, Nigeria.


Attn:

RECOVERY OF DIVERTED ATM DEBIT CARD


I am contacting you personally to notify you of our discovery as well
as get some fact from you. Recently we arrested a man with name
Francisco Zuela a Ghanian Citizen who work with D.H.L office in Lagos
with an ATM CARD with your name on it as the beneficiary and the owner
of the card. However the entire parcel containing the proof of claim
ownership which is also in your name has so far has been recovered
from him.

After we arrested and interrogated him, he confessed as stated below.
My name is Francisco Zuela, I work with the D.H.L office in Nigeria.
Earlier this year, I was approached by a lawyer about the diversion
of a parcel containing ATM DEBIT CARD belonging to one of U.S.A. which
I agreed and then we collaborated to divert the card to another
address in U.S.A from where to be sure it confirmed entry into U.S
after which it was return to Nigeria to avoid any suspicion.

Later we wrote to the the Issuing bank as the beneficiary and with the
help of the collaborator, the risk and management department of the
bank gave me the pin code of the card. Since then I have been making
withdraw sharing with my collaborators until this week when the card
was blocked by the bank that I should contact the issuing bank already
I have made withdraw of about USDUS86,800.00 within this period.

The above is the suspect' s confession and we have contacted the card
issuing bank who also told us that there was an initial complain from
the beneficiary though the identity of the mentioned person was not
disclosed. They confirmed
that there was an application from you to re-release the ATM Card Pin
upon receipt which direct was sent to an email with your name but they
are not aware that you have not received the card since you did not
inform them hence the card was diverted.

We will like to hear from you immediately to enable us carry out
action as well make arrangement for the ATM CARD $15.5million to be
re-dispatched to you without any delay upon reconciliation with the
issuing bank.From our secret investigation so far, we have confirmed
that this suspect is in collaboration with some officials of the bank
to divert this CARD without your knowledge which is confirmed in our
Investigation. At this point, do not communicate with anyone to avoid
leakage information until we are able to arrest everyone involved.

Upon your response, we shall forward an official notification to the
Director Internal Regulatory Department of your country Consulate here
in Nigeria. And also you are to make a payment of $180 for us to get
back your ATM CARD to you
okay so fine below is the information which you will use to send the $120 today.

Receives name: Nwaokoro Victor
Receives address: Nigeria
Test question: good
Test answer: good
Amount:$120

Waiting your Immediate Response.

D.S.P Emmanuel
Lagos State
Force Public Relation Officer

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