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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: "Dr. Annabel Antrove" <office1@suncor.com>
Reply-To: payout@accountant.com
Date: 16 Apr 2018 00:03:41 -0700
Subject: Urgent Message

Greetings.

My name is Dr.Annabel Antrove; i am a chartered accountant and
auditor general in charge of payment disbursement for the most
popular Ponzi Scheme Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox [MMM]. Is no
longer news that Mavrodi died of heart attack on 26 March, 2018.
After final auditing, i discovered Six Billion United State
Dollars in Spanish Bank, Seventy-Eight Billion Pounds in British
Bank and another Eight Hundred Million Euros in Germany. I know
this money belonged to different individual who made
contributions in good faith that they will get their
contributions back with interest.

The management has decided to short down this program permanently
because none of us has a full view of late Mavrodi's conception's
profoundness and sequences of all the actions to achieve a final
goal, declared in the MMM Ideology. Late Sergey Mavrodi's broad
mindedness scale is unprecedented. Therefore any attempt to
continue the system operation without him is bound to fail. We
respect him immeasurably and cannot afford to allow that our
unskilled actions may cause profanation of his concepts.

The reason for contacting you is to inform you that the
management has decided to pay out all the above funds under our
care irrespective of the fact if you donated, contributed,
invested in this scheme or not because we know this contribution
came from all over the world and our data base has been
automatically short down due to many unsuccessful attempt to
retrieve the password which was known by Late Sergey Mavrodi
alone.

Please urgently provide your full name, address, occupation, MMM
identification number (if you were a participant- optional), and
phone number, I will submit them to any of our corresponding
Banks to contact you as one of the benefactor of this program for
immediate payout / disbursement of One Million Dollars, Euros or
Pounds depending on the admin officer that will process your
payment. The management has agreed that first 10,000 people that
respond will receive their pay out within 7 working days through
Electronic wire transfer [EWT] and the remaining balance will be
shared among the board members on the final closure date which is
May 1 2018. There is no bureaucratic procedure, instant payout.
Respond to this email payout@accountant.com with this security
and authentication code MMM/RU432WD5214H


Dr. Annabel Antrove (CHA/AG)
Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM)


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