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: "REV . Henry Karl" <"www."@space.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "REV . Henry Karl" <rev.henry.karl675@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:14:49 +0900 (JST)
Subject: NOTE THIS IS YOUR PACKAGE REGISTERED CODE NO XGT442.

GOOD DAY FUND BENEFICIARY CONTACT THE DIPLOMAT AGENT NOW FOR YOUR ATM CARD.

NOTE THIS IS YOUR PACKAGE REGISTERED CODE NO XGT442.

I want to acknowledge you that we have finally succeeded in getting your ATM CARD worth's of $10.5million out of (ECOWAS) Economic Community of West African States department with the help of Mr.Harry white Attorney General of Federal High Court of Justice Benin Republic which act as your foreign Attorney representative here in Benin Republic.

Meanwhile every necessary arrangement has been made successfully with out Diplomatic Agent Mr JERRY TONY for the delivery of your ATM CARD and every Document guiding your delivery is well updated so you are advised to reconfirm your full delivery information to the Agent JERRY TONY right now as he is currently at John F Kennedy International airport with your ATM CARD. He has already called me with his number on his arrival 4hours ago.

He is waiting to hear from you today with the information, So you are advice to reconfirm your full delivery information to the diplomat more you are advice to be very fast as the Agent JERRY TONY has no time to waste due to his flight ticket. So the Information you are required to reconfirm to the Agent JERRY TONY is as Follow.

(1)Your Full Name
(2)Mobile Phone Number
(3)Current Home Address
(4)Fax Number
(5)Country
(6)City
(7)Nearest Airport
(8)your Occupation

Kindly contact him and the Contact person, Name Diplomatic Agent JERRY TONY CALL OR TEXT TO HIM NOW +1 (586)745-6559 So contact him to deliver your ATM CARD first thing tomorrow morning possibly today, Make sure the bellow stated codes are identified when contacting him and it's a VIP Delivery dispatched directly from my office the director of the DHL Company

SHIPMENT CODE AWB33XZS,

Anti-fraud resources: