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: Wendy Wells <litt.1487@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 07:50:06 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: New delivery procedure of your consignment


Bartolini BRT services  



On behalf of the Minister of Finance and other private sectors here in
Nigeria brings out this Regular Mail Service to deliver the Unfinished
Transfer of Funds and Gratuity that are still in the custody of 
different firms and companies to the rightful owner in any countries. I
am Wendy Wells, representing the {BRT} (Bartolini Corriere Service).

    

The Minister of Finance has ordered the FedEx, DHL, Ups, First
Bank,Zenith Bank and other firms to release the bank draft and ATM
cards to the BRT (Bartolini Corriere Service), So that they can be
mailed out to the rightful owners, because there are too many complains
coming to our desk from different customers and the {FGN} Federal
Government of Nigeria that people are not getting their Bank Draft and
ATM Cards due to the fact that people are not meeting up with the
required demands and amount imposed by some of this delivery companies,
firms and other sectors and constant require of fees that are too much
for people to handle.

    

We have series of Bank Drafts and Atm Cards here in our custody and
they are sealed and we don’t know who and where they belong to we are
getting intouch with you to know if you have ever received an email
regarding any Bank Draft and Atm Cards please contact us back as we are
ready to Mail them to you this was the order given to the company by
the Minister of Finance Nigeria.

    

Our terms and condition for this service is for us to get the Bank Draft and ATM cards to the rightful owner.

    

Regards

    

Wendy Wells.

+234 704 222 832 8

Bartolini Corriere Service

Anti-fraud resources: