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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: Mr Larry Udo <"bank."@oregano.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Mr Larry Udo <bank.westernoffdir@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:23:10 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Conpensation Fund

This massage iS coming to you
from office of the director
western union payment office.


On Behave of
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in corporation with the (UNDP)'s Vertical Funders, together with the (FMF)federal ministry of finance, Benin-REP
This is compensation to all the scam victims from 2007 till this year and your email address was found in the scam victim's email list through the email ballotimg system.
However,
This Western Union office has been mandated by the above mentioned ORGANIZATIONS to transfer your compensation funds of 2.5 million-USD to you via Western Union Money Transfer,
Therefore we have concluded to affect your own payment in this way;
$5,000-USD twice daily until the total sum of $2.5 million-USD is completely transfer d to you
But We cannot be able to send the payment to you with your email address alone, Thereby we need your information as to where we will be sending the funds such as;

Receiver's name:......your full name
Country:--------your country
City:-----------your current city
Id copy:---------your Id card or driver's licence
Phone number:-------your number.

BEWARE:This is the only opportunity we have to transfer your funds to you and it is
only in this edition that you can be offered such a wonderful privilege and note that your first payment files will be returned to the (IMF) within 72 hours if we did not hear from you,
This was the instruction given to us by the above mentioned organizationS,
We will start the transfer as soon as we received your required information.
Contact (bank.westernoffdir@yahoo.com)
BEST REGARDS
Mr.Larry udo
Director
+229 99 67 92 79

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