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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: WDRC
Reply-To: <infoinpoger@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 04:43:35 +0700
Subject: FROM WDRC

 
WELCOME TO WORLD DEBT RECOVERY COMMITTEE
WORLD DEBT RECOVERY COMMITTEE (WDRC)
Address:541 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 204,
Redwood City, CA 94063, USA
Dear Sir
With Due Respect Sir !! I Apana, Dennis,the current Chairman of World
Debt Recovery committee (WDRC).in conjunction with West Africa Fund
Monitoring Unit (WAFMU)
we officially inform you that we received a valued amount of funds to
credit instruction from the federal government of Nigeria and U.S.A
Government to credit your account with your full inheritance/contract
fund sum of us $22.5 million from the Nigerian federal reserve account
with our bank federal reserve Bank board USA.
However, Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following
1. Bank Name:
2. Bank account number:
3. Route number:
4. Swift code:
5. Bank name:
6. Company name:
7. Position:
8. Address:
9. Working Id/ intl Passport
10. Age:
11. Your telephone number
Secondly,the only money you pay for the transfer to take place is just $150 being the approval payment certification from the government and you are
giving a limited time to send the payment and please be advise that you
are to send the payment to American Agent office in Nigeria
Bellow is the contact of the office to make the payment, contact them
now and make the payment to them today
NAME Barrister John Bassett
E-MAIL: drwestjohnx@outlook.com
I will also send your contact to them, try to contact them this morning.
We are looking forward to serving you better.
Awaiting your urgent response.
Apana, Dennis
 

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