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"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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Ming Mui <maingmui00@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 14:31:18 +0000
Subject: ATTN


Mr. Ming Mui
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (USA) NY.
Canal Street Main Branch
G/F, 202 Canal Street,
New York, NY 10013, USA

Greetings once again ,

Thanks so much for your prompt response to my e-mail message, firstly let me state once again that I have been prompted to trust you and will fully depend on you to show me maximum trust, honesty and confidentiality and above all, follow my directives strictly to enable us achieve success in this transaction. As you will understand, this transaction is 100% success assured in as much as you follow my directives/instructions and in 9 working days from now, we will finish all documentary aspect of this transaction and the fund transferred to your nominated bank account.

I will demand that you give me the privilege to handle this transaction with my professional experience and position. I have to at this point ask for your sincere confidentiality, please assure me this and keep to it that the next person to you do not know about this transaction as we have to keep it highly confidential. You should know that I am working with the bank hence my position and job will be at risk should you expose this transaction to anyone especially any official of my bank.

As you will understand, I would not want my bank to know I am behind this transaction so all our communications will be restricted to email unless on a very important and urgent matter then you can reach me on my direct telephone number.

As the Vice President/Branch Manager here, I can assure you that I will make sure this transaction is protected and successfully executed without a third person knowing and we can only achieve this if you do not expose our dealings to anyone. Whatever questions you may want to ask, kindly refer it to me and I would be glad and willing to answer them. Whatever we are doing must be done under a very high level of confidentiality between you and me and you must not mention my name to any official of my bank during and after this transaction. This is for our own safety and also the safety of this transaction. I also will not let them know we have met before now so that every process of this transaction would be easy for me to handle and achieve the desired aim.

The issue of documentation is no problem; I will handle that as soon as we commence the transfer process. My bank will give approval since the fund in my branch and I would be the one to handle everything.

As for what is expected of you in this transaction:

1...YOUR FULL NAMES (As it appears in your Passport or Driver's License)

2...YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS (Where the bank can always send you information)

3…YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE & FAX NUMBER (Where I can always reach you and also if the bank wants to reach you on phone)

The fund would be transferred through a more secured telegraphic wire transfer means with evidence proving the genuine source of the fund and you as the legitimate beneficiary of the fund. With my experience in financial matters, I will handle this. Please do not call me on my official telephone number because it will be unsecured to discuss this transaction in my office because all calls are monitored so if you call me, your call would be recorded and that means our conversation would be recorded. I just want everything to be officially handled while I would be behind to mastermind it.

Please get back to me today with the above stated information so that I will be able to extract the deposit agreement and then make official application of the claim in your name and submit to the board which meets once every week. As soon as I receive your assurance along with the information above, I will send you copy of my identification and also let you know the total amount of money we are to transfer to you. For any question you may want to ask please send it to me by email, I am very ready to answer them. I assure you that my bank management will give the approval of this claim instantly as the money is in my branch.

I do not want to write so much on the procedure so that you will not be confused but I inform you that it is simple and fast. I will be waiting to hear from you so we can proceed. You can always reach me on my direct telephone number: ( if any need for urgency arises. Attached is a copy of my Passport for your eyes alone please.

Sincerely,
Mr. Ming Mui

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