419 scam: "Daniel Anthony"<Emailmarket@investment.biz> PLEASE READ

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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united state dollars" (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)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "danielmartin_atmoffice@yahoo.co.uk" (this email address looks like addresses used in "ATM SWIFT card" 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.
- danielmartin_atmoffice@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Daniel Anthony" (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:57:31 +0100
Subject: PLEASE READ

Good Day

This is to inform you that you have been choosing as a beneficiary of the some of Four Million United State Dollars($4,000,000,00),randomely selected among the 800,000 email market selection in investments orientation screen on various investment organisations all around the world. As it is a fund meant for foreign investment,inorder to enchance the chance of investment extension reaching people all around the world, and to bring out the creativity in them,By managing the fund,to create a foreign project through you.You are therefor informed about this as your email was selected in the review by the foreign investors which has make this fund available for this course.

You are therefore urge to send us your contact details,and all the necessary data in processing needed to get the fund to you,which will be issuedon a ATM card from the bank(Oceanic Bank)and it will be send to you by which you can withdraw this fund in any ATM Machine in your Area ..

Kindly reply to this on the email addres below as soon as possible with personal informations,so we can proceed in processing this transaction. Your urgency toward this message is highly required

Regards
Beneficiary Controller
Daniel Anthony.M
Email ..danielmartin_atmoffice@yahoo.co.uk

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam