joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days
  jwSpamSpy

Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "EFCC FUND COMPENSATION COMMISSION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <efccinvestigationcommissiondept@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:16:40 +0100
Subject: WE AWAIT FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONSE!

FROM:EFCC FUNDS RECOVERY AND COMPENSATION DEPT
ECONOMICAL FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC)
NO 15/18 AWOLOWO ROAD, IKOYI,
LAGOS.NIGERIA.
 
 
 
Attention Beneficiary,
 
This is to Notify You and the general public that THE ECONOMIC FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION incollaboration with the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Is investigating  Mr.Ibrahim Lamorde, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu ,Mrs. Farida Mzamber Waziri whom has been removed from the office due to corruptions and has been replaced by MR IBRAHIM MUSTAFA MAGU as the chairman of the (EFCC) in connection with Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) with head Office in Nigeria.
 
 
We have been working towards the suppression of fraudsters and scam in Western part of Africa, with the help of United States Government and the United Nations we have been able to tracked down so many of this scam artist in various parts of West African countries which includes (NIGERIA, REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO, GHANA, CAMEROON, SENEGAL LONDON and others countries in the world) and they are all in our custody here in Lagos Nigeria. We have been able to recover huge amount of money from these scammers. The United Nation Anti-crime commission and the United State Government have ordered that the money recovered from them should be shared among hundred Lucky people around the globe. This message is being directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard disk in our custody here in Nigeria. Your email address has been selected among the lucky beneficiary for compensation of $5,500, 000) FIVE Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars.
 
According to the record we have here, this Scam Artists has defrauded a lot of people of their hard earned currencies, as they claims to be Barristers/Bank officials,Military Soldiers, Face book Friends, Lottery Agents, Financial Loan Assistance, next of kin funds transfer and job offer which do not really exist. Since
your email address appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive this compensation of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only, we have arranged your payment in certified bank atm transfer that will enable you withdraw and transfer your money to any account from any atm machine nearest to you.
 
Kindly reconfirm the below information to enable us follow up the finalizing process of your payment via atm card with the bank.
 
Full Name..........................
Home Address....................
Mobile Phone Number..............
Sex.............................
Age..........................  
Occupation.......................
Company Name................
Business name...............
Id card........................
 
We sincerely apologize on behalf of the President and the good citizens of Nigeria/London for any delay and lost this most have coursed you and promise that such thing
will not happen again.
 
We will have the bank uploaded your funds on the ATM Debit Cash Card as soon as this is done, we will send a scanned copy of the ATM card to you before it will proceed
to dispatch the card directly to your nominated mailing address by certify courier service.
 
So you absolutely have nothing to worry about as all we need is your prompt response and co-operation. We guarantee you 100% safety
 
Thanks and we appreciate your kind response.
 
Yours Faithfully
Mr.Kenneth Babetunde
For Economic and Financial Crimes Commission

Anti-fraud resources: