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: LOUISE DEJOY <bankofghanabkof@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dhlservice658@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:22:13 -0700
Subject: SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION ? YEAR 2000 TO 2021

I have to introduce myself to you. This is the last warning. I am U.S
citizen working under DHL COMPANY Permanent Representative of the USA
DHL WORKER for American as

whole. We did received some letter from FBI and Interpol office in USA
here, that your Award beneficiaries, that some so called claims
coordinators has been extorting

money from beneficiary's before they will agree to sign the funds
release and make the funds available to you due, to that regards a
meeting was held on the 28th of

August to make sure that the files of your ATM Master Card packages
are being looked into and also check out, And that was when we
actually found out that your package

contains the sum of $2.5million had not been deliver to your doorstep .

To that effect we the DHL COMPANY decided to help beneficiary's to
deliver the sum of $2.5million to your home address without wasting
anytime, You don't have to pay

any other charge/fees apart from the courier charge, I want you to
bear in mind that we are only trying to help you because I believe
that you have been running with

the wrong people for a longtime now and yet you have not receive your
package and note that arrangement of this ATM Master Card package have
been issue US custom and

FBI advice us to secure all property in this DHL Express.

I also want to inform you that we have secured all documents to help
you receive your FUNDS PACKAGE without any other delays, you don't
have anything to worry about

attach is tracking number registered with your email address to avoid
internet fraud not to view the online delivery, to avoid any
complications.

Once again the lists of package content are:
1. ORIGINAL COPY OF INSURANCE BOND
2. USA DHL EXPRESS COMPANY CHICAGO IL INVITATION LETTER
3. CERTIFICATE OF CLEAR SOURCE OF FUNDS ORIGIN (Issued by Internal
Revenue Board)

To enable us dispatch your package via the above stated express
channels for delivery system kindly see below for the charges required
for delivery, therefore we

urgent you to make the payment of $100 Dollars as soon as possible to
avoid more increase of your delivery charge, which also serve as the
courier charge, We are

sending to you instruction on how to make your payment for the
delivery charges of your parcel. Please note that all payment for
delivery should be made via gift

cards.

I advise that you try your possible best to come up with the payment
as soon as possible so that your parcel can leave for dispatch before
12hours according to the

agreement paper. Hope you understand? And on the receipt of your
payment confirmation email, your package will be set for dispatch
which you will receive within

12hours. We sincerely hope the above information is helpful to you,
further queries do not hesitate to write to us. Please make sure you
furnish us with your current

delivery address to enable us to confirm the address we had registered online.

Dont forget to reconfirm to us below information to avoid wrong delivery.

House address.....................
Nearest airport....................
telephone number...................
occupation.....................
age...................
sex.......................
copy of id card...........

Kindly get back to us and also with the requested information. I am
going to help you complete this transaction if you want us to proceed
on this matter with urgent

don't fail to send the courier charge today, kindly open attach for
tracking number registered to your email address to avoid viewing from
internet hacker, failing to

login to the attach tracking link. You won't be able to view the
online tracking, take note to avoid more complication dearest
customer.

Best Regards,
louise dejoy
Email:dhlservice658@gmail.com
Managing Director. DHL Express International.

Anti-fraud resources: