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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: "MRS GRACE MORGAN" <test@mail.bnk.ua>
Reply-To: jamemorgan54@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 23:17:51 -0700
Subject: Dear Good Day,

Dear good day.
compliments of this day,
I am writing to introduce myself to you, and share an information with you. which I believe should be mutually beneficial. My name is MRS GRACE MORGAN . a consultant with our government ecuador .
The information I want to share with you is this; our government has through the finance ministry of Ecuador authorized the last payment of USD $3,000;000,00 ( Three Million United states Dollars) for contract No.FGN/ENPC462PED72XX/008.
However, unknown to the government, this last part of the money is over inflated/excess amount of the contract value which we manipulated for our own advantage. My agreement with the contracting firm was to have this excess amount as my own share of the contract fund.
as an officer in charge of procurement that help there company in getting the big contract.
I am now writing to solicit for your partnership to facilitate the transfer of this fund to a safe bank accounts away from here for a mutual benefit as a widow with children old age without any help from any where.

I will be going on retirement soon september this year. Please note that the nature of your business does not matter for your participation. What is very important is your honesty and if i will trust you with this fund then i come over as soon as this fund credit into your account.
It would interest you to know that the original contracting firm has since been paid their due contract amount and leaving the excess value as yet unclaimed debt in the ENPC contract paying Bank according to our agreement with them.
Your firm or profiles shall be presented by a normal process as the sub-contractor to the original contractor, and demand that this excess amount will be paid to your bank account . You will have 15% of the total fund when transferred. Let me state here that this message is strictly for you alone. If you have read and understood me clearly, Then I would like you to forward to me the following informations for the easy transfer of this money;
1.Your company name if any and your full name also your company or house address,.
2.Your personal telephone number.
3) your age and occupation and position.
I am assuring you that all necessary machinery have already been put in place with the officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance Ecuador for a successful deal.
I have to state that because of the confidential nature of this transaction . all correspondences shall be by email first.
( jamemorgan54@gmail.com )
Your earliest response is awaited..
Regards,
MRS GRACE MORGAN

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