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: EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA LOTERIA <info@elgordoprimitiva.com>
Reply-To: info@elglobalseguros.com
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:27:20 -0400
Subject: WINNING AWARD NOTIFICATION

Apartado de Correos 126
28046 Madrid-Spain.
Email: info@elgordoprimitiva.com
International Promotion/Prize Award Dept.
REF NO: ES/0264524715ZBN BATCH NO: ES/5275YD65IMN


WINNING AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the released results of the EL GORDO DE
LA PRIMITIVA SPANISH SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY / INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION
PROGRAMME held on the 7th June 2019 and result released on 17th June
2019. Your email address attached to the Ticket number
065-80-311-752-999 with Serial number 2671-763 drew the lucky numbers
65-98-05-11-64 which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd Category.

You are therefore been approved for lump sum pay out of €712,580.78
(SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWELVE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EURO
SEVENTY EIGHT CENTS ONLY) in cash credited to file No: NIS/08. This is
from total cash prize of €11,376 610 (ELEVEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND TEN EURO ONLY) shared among the
twenty five international winners in this Category.

Your fund is now deposited in a bank. To avoid mix up of numbers and the
risk of double claiming we advise that you keep your winning information
confidential until your claim has been processed and your money remitted
to your account .This is part of our security protocol to avoid abuse
and undue taking advantage of this programme by dubious people.

All our beneficiaries were selected through a computer ballot system of
email addresses drawn from over 25,000,000 email addresses from Europe,
Australia,Asia and America as part of our INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION
PROGRAMME which is conducted once every year. We hope that with the part
of your prize money,you will take part in our next year high stake of
€1.8 billion Euro International Lottery.

To begin your claim please contact your authorized claims agent, Juan
Martinez Foreign Service Manager EL GLOBAL SEGUROS S.A MADRID SPAIN via
email: info@elglobalseguros.com for the processing and remittance of
your winning prize money to a designation account of your choice.
Remember , all prize money must be claimed not later than 14th of August
2019 after which all funds will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE
ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed funds. Be informed that 5% of your
Lottery Winning will be paid to EL GLOBAL SEGUROS S.A after you have
received your money.

Note; In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote
your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with us or your
agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do
inform your claims agents as soon as possible.

Congratulations once again from all our members of staff and thank you
for being part of our
International Promotions Program.

Yours Faithfully,

Jose Luis Miguel
Vice President.

Anti-fraud resources: