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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: "Lillian Ryan" <lillianryan3333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:31:33 +0300
Subject: Dear Sir,




Dear Sir,

We recognize an automatic payment due to be carried out to Linaksita
Kathleen Fulvia (F) designated Bank account with Arab Banking Corporation
(ABC) London, but, was wrongly or accidentally credited to our bank
account with the same Arab Banking Corporation (ABC) London EC2R 6AB UK .

When we received the credit alert,first,we thought, it was to be credited
to an account which bears a similar account name to ours,therefore, we
commenced Sending standard notices to such names for the posting error to
be rectified, until the bank investigators revealed or uncover that the
movement of the money originated from Linaksita Grayson Herbert (M) bank
account with Arab Banking Corporation (ABC) Manama,Kingdom of Bahrain,but
have in the meantime fallen terribly behind.

Regrettably, Linaksita Grayson Herbert who made the wire transfer to his
wife (Linaksita Kathleen Fulvia) bank account in London EC2R 6AB UK died
with his wife and the only Son Linaksita Tony in the crashed Air Asia
flight QZ8501 on Sunday December 28, 2014 killing all the 162 passengers
on board. For more information view full Passenger's Manifest at
http://www.adobotalkph.com/2014/12/airasia-lists-passengers-crew-on-board-flight-qz
8501.html

At this point,the deposit is in our Bank account, certainly for sure,no
one will ever come forward for the claim, for this reason,we want you to
act as our foreign investment partner, by coming together to receive the
the sum of USD 9,100,000.00 (Nine Million, One Hundred Thousand U.S
Dollars) into your bank account. The deposit is now considered "open
beneficiary status" simply because it was accidentally transferred into
our Bank account.

Therefore, to be able to legally obtained from records of our bank
satisfactory documents required to start the processing and documentation
of the paper work for approvals and release of the funds in your name,the
following information would be required from you-: Your full names,
Address, Age, private telephone number.This is the easiest and the only
reliable way we can legally obtain the "DEED OF RELEASE" in your name
directing or grant right of possession in a well known fact that the funds
is owned free and clear onto you and any previous claims against the funds
certainly had been dissolved.

Please note, henceforth direct all email / attached files to us through
this email account:- lillianryan3333@gmail.com. We are waiting to read
from you the fact of this email message being received.

Warm regards,

Lillian Ryan.

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