419 scam: "Martins Obiakor" <officemailbox1@wsea9j5t8.homepage.t-online.de> Atm Card Payment

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
- "lagos" (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.
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.
- martinsobiakorsnr@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Martins Obiakor" <officemailbox1@wsea9j5t8.homepage.t-online.de>
Reply-To: <martinsobiakorsnr@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:19:58 -0800
Subject: Atm Card Payment

Ecobank Nigeria Plc
No, 2 Ajose Adeogun str.
Victoria Island.
Lagos - Nigeria.

Ref: EBP/NG-PT/FP0037/09

Attn: Beneficiary

Please reply to this email: martinsobiakorsnr@gmail.com otherwise your reply will not be attended to.

Following to the credit instruction received today from the World Bank of Switzerland to release your Inheritance/winnings fund to you for this Quarter payment release order.
This is to inform you that we have process the remittance of your fund via atm visa card to your home address as we have been mandated to pay you by ATM VISA CARD.

So you are advice to write us and as well call upon the receipt of this Official Letter.
Be inform that the Inheritance/winning file we received in our office today from the World Bank of Switzerland, your name have been short-listed for payment, and the amount we have in your file is US$5.5m which we have programmed via atm visa card, which is to be deliver direct to your door step.

Based on that, you are required to provide us with the below information that will aid us check-mate if it is inline with what we have in our Central Computer Unit for effective Delivering of your ATM VISA CARD.

Your Names (Surname) …. (First Name) …. (Last Name) …
Contacts address (Not P.O. Box)…
Office Tel, Mobile/Cell and Fax
Occupation, Age and Marital Status
Copy of your passport, or driver’s license.

Warning: We deemed it necessary to inform you that you should stop every illegal communication that you are having with any office or officials from now onward, because we should not be held responsible for any problem that might occur, if you persist to continue with any office or officials.

Please reply to this email: martinsobiakorsnr@gmail.com otherwise your reply will not be attended to.

Yours truly,

Mr.Martins Obiakor
Director, Foreign Operations
Ecobank Nigeria Plc

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam