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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: "Robert E. Marling Jr." <"ww."@joy.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Robert E. Marling Jr." <robertmarlingjr@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 06:50:52 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention !!

Wood Forest National Bank Corporate Office
Headquarters 100 N.Tryon St Charlotte,NC 28255
Our Ref:BOA/IRU/SFE/15.5/WD/011
United States of America
Monday-Friday
8 a.m.-9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time(EDT)
Saturday and Sunday
8 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time(EDT)
Office Customer service number: (+1778 732 3312)


Dear Valuable Customer.


The Management of the Wood Forest National Bank Corporate Office Headquarters here in 100 N.Tryon St Charlotte,NC 28255 wishes to inform you that after a brief meeting held by the Bank executives TODAY at precisely 8 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time(EDT), we deem it appropriate to intimate you that your funds will be transferred
to you , your long overdue Payment outstanding in our Banking records. I saw your name in our Central Computer vetting system among our unpaid inheritance claims individuals and have to update your information through this email contact for your immediate confirmation.( robertmarlingjr@financier.com )

You are among the beneficiaries who will be receiving their over due payment of US$10,500.000.00 (Ten million five hundred thousand United State dollars) which has been already approved some months ago after further approval from the new appropriate authority under the U.S. Government to release the above mentioned amount to you.

However, we received an email again from one Mrs. Chanel S. Jones of Minden, Louisiana who told us that she is your next of kin, that you died in a fatal car accident few months.

Furthermore, She has been building efforts to induce us into believing that you are dead, that she is your next of kin and she has the legal right to obtain whatever is due to you, we therefore agreed that i should contact you to enable us find out if she is right or just an impostor but If we do not hear from you within 72hrs, we will assume that she is right. But if you will, at least, confirm to us that she was not sent by you, then we shall release your funds to you as the sole beneficiary of the funds.

She was also submitted her bank account details for us to transfer the fund to her as your inheritor.

We are now verifying by contacting you before we can make the transfer into her account. Upon this, I request you to send your information such as: Full name, full address, Direct phone number, copy of your identification as soon as possible to enable us finalize the transfer of the fund into your bank account .

Once again, proper confirmation required urgently from you if you are still alive.

Yours sincerely,
Robert E. Marling Jr.
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer,
Woodforest National Bank

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