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: "Rt. Rev. Father Gilbert Okeke" <jamesgibson8809@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rev.fathergilbert100@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:59:48 -0700
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL..........TREAT AS URGENT??

UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL
DUTIES OFFICE LONDON UNITED KINGDOM.

Attention: Fund Beneficiary

I am Rev. Father Gilbert Okeke a senior staff with the World Bank fact
finding & special duties office. I am writing you this letter because
cool penny is better than million of dollars. It is better for one to
live and die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one. The Chief
security officer (CSO) of this organization and I have arranged with
an officer in computer section,
engineer Peter Cliff has agreed to bring out part of your total sum
amounting to US$5.5 Million, why we did this is because according to
information gathered from the banks/security computer, you have been
waiting for a long time to receive your money without success. As I
found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in
respect of your fund settlement. Your problem is that of interest
groups.


A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are
merely doing papers works with you and that is why you receive
messages from different people every day. Also we found out tha!t some
of the officials of the pastoral  have been extorting a lot of money
from you with the pretext of helping you to receive your money. I can
assure you that this may last for years yet nothing happens, if you do
not do away with those officers you call your partners, and for
security reasons. Do not tell anybody that you have your money until
you receive cash at your doorstep.

The money is in two security proof boxes weighing 110kg each, which is
220kg for the two boxes. We went to four courier companies to make
arrangements on how to ship them by courier to you, we went to DHL,
FEDEX, IAS, UPS, and all said that they must open the boxes for
inspection by the customs before shipment. This is something we want
to avoid because the boxes were padded with synthetic nylon and to
open them you have to cut the pad before you will meet the buttons
that you will press to open the dial code-lock. There is no way you
can open the boxes and be able to close them again because they were
padded with machine.

We told the courier services that the boxes contained film materials
and when open will spoil the materials. We did not declare money
because couriers do not carry money. Today a friend of mine who is
diplomat disclosed to me that there is courier service they use to
send diplomatic material and information from one country to another.
It has diplomatic immunity and cannot check by any customs any where
in the World. The name of the courier service is Global Security
Service (GSS) I will meet them as soon as I have your go ahead order.

The Diplomat will help me to get immunity papers, so we do not have
any problem. We have concluded that you must compensate us with five
hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$500.000.00)as soon s you
receive your money to this effect, you will send to us a promissory
note for five hundred thousand united States Dollars(US$500.000.00)
along with your identification and address for sending the boxes by
courier, Please maintain top most secrecy as it may cause a lot of
problem if found out that we are using this way to help you. Do not
ever tell anybody about this until you have your money.

I want to help you because something in me is telling me that you are
an honest person when we concluded this and you send our promise. We
will help to ship the final part of your money to you. Be blessed as
we wait for your urgent reply. For security reason please reply to
here

Yours faithfully,

Rt. Rev. Father Gilbert Okeke
E-mail (rev.fathergilbert100@yahoo.com )
Chairman, Fact-Finding & Special Duties Office

Anti-fraud resources: