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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. Fred Akanu" <jenny@zenztwenty.com>
Reply-To: fred112282@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:57:00 -0700
Subject: RE: SUCCESSFUL RELEASE OF YOUR APPROVED FUNDS.

DEBT RECONCILIATION COMMITTEE {D.R.C}
WASHINGTON, D.C
Tel: + 1 424 286 538

From the desk of: Dr. Fred Akanu.

RE: SUCCESSFUL RELEASE OF YOUR APPROVED FUNDS.

The debt reconciliation committee office is particularly surprised by constant petitions from many beneficiaries in various countries complaining about long-delays on their payments, and that they wasted much money in the pursuit of their entitlements and funds. Also during our investigation, we noticed that there are multiple cases where two or more people are applying for the same funds.

Therefore, the United Nations in conjuction with the Federal Reserve System of the United States department has resolved and instructed that all funds shall be released through maximum supervision of the debt reconciliation committee (DRC) after a thorough vetting has been carried out with a view to ensure that your unpaid funds are speedily approved in your favour and also remitted into your bank account through a United States bank as approved.

We will forward the required information to you a soon as your reply is received by this office, therefore you are required to furnish this office with your full details, contact information, accurate amount of funds due you for any contract executed for any government, next of kin inheritance fund, lottery winning price, etc. We also require you to furnish us with details of any or all sorts of payment of money you may have made in the past in your quest to claim your legitimate funds with a view to refunding all the money you spent back to you.

You are advised to act swiftly as approval and payment is based on a first come, first serve due to the numerous number of people and companies that are been owed world-wide.

Congratulations in Advance.

Yours faithfully,

DR. FRED AKANU
Debt payment director
For: Debt Reconciliation Committee {DRC}

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