joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days

"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

• About the 419 (Advance Fee) scam
• "Is that email a scam?" - Check it online here!
  
• Frequently asked Questions (419 FAQ)
• Phone numbers used by 419 scammers
  (+225 +229 +234 +27 +31 +32 +34 +44 other)
• Company names mentioned in 419 spam:
  1 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Support our efforts to stop scams!
  
• How to report 419 spam to us
• What can you do when you receive 419 spam
  
  
• Spam archive, Daily index
  

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.

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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "nuhu ribadu" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22995322955 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • efcc_of_investigatio@cooltoad.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Economic Finance Crime Commission Investigation <efcc-investig2@live.fr>
Reply-To: <ike_dike2006@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:52:16 +0100
Subject: Contact the Investigation office as you were instructed to the
email above.



FROM THE DESKTOP OF THE CHAIRMAN ECONOMIC FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION UNDER FEDERAL MINISTRY FINANCE ABUJA FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA


ATTENTION Sir\Madam How are you? i hope you are fine. Well, I believe by the time you will be through with this email you will understand and surely place your mind at rest as you are going to start a new life in no distance time. Most families have lost lives, homes and there great wealth due to the high rate of fraud and scams that has been all over the Nation and the world in general, but since the setup of the Economic Finacial Crime Commission for the purpose,these crimes has been reduced and we are fighting heavily to put this to an end.
Right now, over half a billion [500 million] Dollars has been recovered from these fraudsters through our Intelligence network, and most suspects are still in on our custody for proper investigations and trials. Your name has been found in our list of those that has been defrauded through some of these media, Account/Western union money transfer and others. The western union money transfer that has been sent so far to some county like London Ghana,Togo,Spain,South Africa and United States etc are being received here in our country by these scammers in the name of having transaction that you don't know about.You have approved to recieve the sum of $500,000.00 USD An instruction has been giving that in no account should any money be paid to an individual through any means without a proper investigation. We have our agents in the bank all round the World with proper security to checkmate these scammers and any bank that goes contrary to our instruction will stand the risk of losing its certificate of accreditation.If this is true about you, do not border much because it is time for you to regain what you have lost.75% of what you have spent through those transaction will be given back to you if you have any thing to prove this, while, 30% will be given to those without a solid plat form to stand on in no distance time through our new compensational program introduced by the new President Alhaji Musa Yar'radua. All you need to do is to contact the head of International investigations Benin Republic with this information below for further clarification and screening after which part of this money will be sent to you through ATM CASH CARD or means which will be convenience for you as stated clearly above.


Dr Kingsley Adams Contact personEmail:efcc_of_investigatio@cooltoad.com
Tel:+229-95-3229-55

They will program your datas in their micro chip informations, to enable the bank to identify you as the right beneficairy of the fund, you are hereby advice to send to them the micro chip fee of $128 .Contact them, they will instruct you on how to send the $128 to them.

SignMallam Nuhu Ribadu[Chairman EFCC Republic of Nigeria]NOTE; Contact the Investigation office as you wereinstructed to the email above. This payment has alimited time frame for funds dispatch. Your responseis expected within 7 working days of receiving thisnotice
_________________________________________________________________
Votez pour vos séries TV préférées et tentez de gagner un voyage à Hawaï !
http://messengerawards.divertissements.fr.msn.com/

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam