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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: "Afolabi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <factfindingcommissionng2017@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:10:32 +0100
Subject: Bailout Compensation Fund from IMF/WB

From: Fact Finding Commission,
Under The Auspices of the Ministry of Finance,Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Ref: imf/wb.bailout/0018787-2017
Date: August 29 2017.

To whom it may concern:

Dear Sir,

During the recent re-capitalization exercise in the banking sectors, across Europe, Asia, USA and Africa, by World Bank and IMF financial experts, lots of

foreign approved unpaid funds were discovered. However, statistics revealed that they were lots of irregularities and impediments by officials that handled

the release of these foreign approved fund in the past, as some of the officials connived and collaborated with some greedy foreigners to claim and divert

funds to illegal beneficiaries, who are not the rightful beneficiaries to the approved funds.

In view of the above, World Bank and IMF set up a Fact finding commission under Financial Intelligence Unit, with the mandate
to verify the genuineness and authenticity of all delayed unpaid approved funds and find out their rightful beneficiaries as
well oversee to the immediate release of all legitimate approved ones, to their rightful beneficiaries. To ensure a successful completion of all genuine

foreign debts, World Bank in collaboration with International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the sum of US$1.8 Billion, as bailout funds to empower banks

financially, to offset their foreign debts to legitimate beneficiaries whom their approved funds were delayed or denied. Any legitimate beneficiary who has

not received his or her approved fund will be entitled to a compensation sum of US$2.7M from the US$1.8 Billion, bailout fund approved by IMF and World

Bank. In the course of exercising this assignment, we discovered that your payment was among several unpaid approved funds; hence

we contacted you after detailed review of your payment file. In other to expedite the transfer of the approved compensation sum to your account, you are

required to reconfirm your details by providing this office with bellow information to enable us upload your approved compensation sum with the nominated

paying bank for immediate transfer of the approved bailout compensation fund to your nominated account.

Your full Names
Full Address,
Date of Birth
Phone Numbers and Mobile Number
Profession/ Occupation
The delayed Amount Owned to you.
Marital status/ Sex
Copy of your International Passport or Driving

Note that you are not under force or any obligation to comply with this instruction or take advantage of this exercise, hence we will tolerate any form of

unnecessary delay, otherwise your payment file will be closed and your approved compensation cancelled. This office regrets the inconveniences; you

were caused due to the delay and non release of your approved fund and assured you of our unalloyed service and co operations.

Best Regards,
Dr. Johnson Afolabi

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