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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: "Mr.Mustapha Dangote" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mdangote56@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 09:28:24 -0700
Subject: The True Position of Your Fund

Dear Sir/Ma
I am Mr. Mustapha Dangote, assistant director (foreign operations) United Bank for Africa. I write this email to tell you the true position of your financial matter and also the reason why you have not received your fund from our bank. I have this opportunity to relate with you because the director of foreign operations went for one (1) month leave and all power has been vested on me to handle foreign payments. As I was going through foreign payment files, I discovered why it has been difficult for you to receive your fund and the reason is because the method of payment applied by the director of foreign operations to transfer your fund always end up with a stop order from government parastatals/ agencies in Nigeria, because information of your fund payment passed through the Central Control Unit of the Federal Ministry of Finance and also office of the Accountant General of the Federation for authorization. Why such method of payment is not safe for you because it is not don e within our bank alone and will
But since the power has been vested on me to handle foreign payments and beside office of the presidency on foreign financial matters gave our bank 7 days ultimatum to conclude foreign payments approved via our bank, you will receive your unpaid fund through the easiest and quickest method. By this method, a domiciliary account will be established in your name with our bank and the US$1.8M will be moved from the suspense account where it is presented deposited and then credited into the domiciliary account for onward transfer to you via ATM card. This method of payment is done within our bank alone and it is very safe, hence no kind of stop order from any of the government parastatals/agency in Nigeria to paralyze your fund transfer.
 
 
You will receive more details upon receipt of your response.
Regards,
 
Mr. Mustapha Dangote
Assistant Director
Foreign Operations
Tel: 002348058418519

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