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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: trsdepoffice@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:27:55 -0700
Subject: RE: YOUR EARLIEST RESPONSE IS REQUIRED


Continental National Bank
1801 sw 1st Street,
Miami, FL 33135 USA
RE: Way To Bank With Us:
ATTENTION BENEFICIARY:
PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
In view of the payment notification we received from World Bank President
Kristalina Georgieva & Board of Governors of IMF headed by Christian Lagarde
Concerning your payment from Reserve Fixed deposit Account they have with
us, we have received International Centre for Settlement of Contracts &
Investments Disputes (ICSID) which is an autonomous international
institution established under the United Nations (UN) Convention on the
Settlement of Contract Disputes, Inheritance, Lottery Winnings,
compensation, Loan, Automated Card
Payment, Diplomatic Payments etc.
During the auditing and verifying of your files it was discovered from the
Records of outstanding transfer's due for payment. Many officials
and some of your agents from the source origin of your fund have delayed
your payment for one reason or the other, from our
investigation; we discovered that you have been going through hard times by
paying a lot of money to see to the release of your funds,which has been
delayed by some dubious officials with greedy character just to sit undue
advantage of your fund because of your incapacitated
inability to access good and legitimate information on how your funds will
be released.
I want to use this medium to inform you that We have received new
authorization order of your fund release from the IMF, and World Bank
president to reflect and clear your total sum of USD$10.9Million Dollars in
your name bit by bit according to World Bank and IMF clearance approved
policy newly implemented.
This clearance requires your funds to be cleared and reconcile according to
international fund release bit by bit standard policy. This excise requires
you to come in person to Federal Reserve bank New York if you want to.
This is the legal approval order to clear funds in order to avoid
interception of fund reflection by any financial monitoring agency
globally, for this reason we are going to use Inter-Bank to Bank Instrument
to transfer and reflect your fund into your bank account in less than 24hrs.
We advise that you reconfirm your account details below to avoid
unnecessary mistakes because bank will not be held responsible for wrong
transferring of funds into a wrong account.
1) Your Account Name...............
2) Your Bank Name.........................
3) Your Bank Address .....................
4) Your Bank Account Number..........
5) Your Bank Routing Number..............
6) Bank Swift Code...............................
7) Bank Telephone No............................
8) Account Type Personal/Checking/Cooperate.........
9) Account Holder's Address & Your Direct Cell Phone N0...............
10) Fax Number...............................
Once money is transferred we shall send you the payment slip and a
confirmation message will be sent to you so that you can confirm your funds
reflection after without any obstacles.
Looking forward to your earliest response.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Alex Johnson
Continental National Bank
International Wire Transfer Dept

Anti-fraud resources: