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: "U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY" <dr.ross@any-mail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 20:58:03 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: U.K. NATIONAL STAKE WINNER!!!

 

The UK Stake National Lottery announces today the external online draw #2011 held last Saturday here in the United Kingdom. Your email address was attached to Ticket Number 207/510054/UKNL, with Serial number 99010, which won in the 2nd Category. This program is to promote the use of the internet. You have been approved for payment of the sum of £948, 600:00 (Nine Hundred and Forty - Eight Thousand Six Hundred Great British Pounds) credited to file with REF NO: JAKP/98710/HA/07 and Batch No.10050UKNL.

 

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary claim Agent, Dr. Smith Edwards of Fidelity Trust and Security company with your Reference and Batch numbers immediately. Send him your full names, address, telephone numbers, date of birth, sex, occupation and nationality by email. His contact details are;

Dr. Smith Edwards.

Email:  or drsmithe7@gmail.com or drsmithe7@aol.com 

Direct Line: +44-787-224-8219.

              

Sincerely,

Dr. Ross Vaughn.

Online Lottery Coordinator.

  

GRATIS für alle WEB.DE Nutzer: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT!   
Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de

Anti-fraud resources: