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: "AA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <contactasiacenter@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 01:53:43 +0700
Subject: International Scammed Victims Compensation Co-coordinator.Copyright 20017.

International Scammed Victims Compensation Co-coordinator.Copyright 20017.

RE: UN 2017 COMPENSATION PAYMENT.
UNDER CATEGORY A REF No: UNCP0308590ID/2017.

Attn: Mr/Mrs. Beneficiary.

This is to officially inform you that the United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) in conjunction with the United States FBI has agreed to pay all B2B & ALIBABA Scammed /Internet Fraud Victims relations a Compensation amount of $500,000 USD (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) for all lost incurred.

This was concluded after a meeting held with FBI, B2B and ALIBAB Director with the United Nation President, Mr. Vuk Jeremic, The United Nation General Assembly is using this means to rewards all the Citizens of the United States, Canada and all part of Europe including Asia, Australia, South America, Antarctica etc., The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) was created in 1991 as a subsidiary organ of the United Nations Security Council resolution 687 (1991) to process claim and pay compensation for the losses and damages suffered as scammed victims, including unpaid contractor's /inheritances.

Also to let you know that all those involved are undergoing judgments at the Federal High Court as arraigned by the FBI officials and further investigations are going on and more are still to be arrested in-collaboration of your assistant.

In order to receive your compensation payment, you are hereby advice to forward urgently the below details in full.

(1) Your Full Name:
(2) Full residential address:
(3) Tel Phone, Cell and Fax Number:
(4) Occupation:
(5) Sex:
(6) Age:
(7) Nationality:
(8) Copy of Personal Identification. Either; (International Passport or Driver’s license):

You are advice to forward those above info's requested to representative payment bank in Indonesia, which is nominated and approved by the United Nation President, Mr. Vuk Jeremic of Serbia, and you are also advice to stop further communication by phone, fax or email with whosoever that contacting you for now, you can also help to trap them down for us by requesting for the copy of their identification, phone and fax number, email address and office address, all this information's will be useful to trace some of them out, if the information's is genuine.

Contact Information:

Dr. Mubarak Al-Amin.
Branch Manager BCA Indonesia.

Your urgent respond is highly needed for swift payment to be made and also be noted that if this message comes to you as a mistake, i mean if you are not among of the scammed victim, please delete this message, because payment will not made if you cannot proof yourself as a victim

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Eva Puriwati.
Coordinator

---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Anti-fraud resources: