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: FBI SPECIAL AGENT TO AFRICA <mazihgideon@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mkasaija35@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 15:15:05 +0100
Subject: Re: ($2,800,000.00 USD) FOR BEING SCAM VICTIM.

Our Ref: RTB /SNT/STB
To: Beneficiary;


Re: ($5,500,000.00 USD) FOR BEING SCAM VICTIM.

This is the FBI special agent to Africa, Mr. James Page. I was
delegated alongside others by the United Nations to come over to
Africa to investigate fraudsters who had been in the business of
swindling foreigners especially those that have one form of
transaction/contracts and another. Please be informed that in the
course of our investigation, We detected that your name and details in
our Scammed Monitoring Network. We also found out that a certificate
of fund ownership was signed on 11/05/2021 along with certificate of
fund payment approval which was approved on 24/08/2021 by the Uganda
Finance Min ister Hon. Matia Kasaija, This 2 certificate suposed to be
sent to you long ago to fill your full informations for immediate
payment of you scammed victims compensation fund of $5.500,000,00 U.S
Dollars, Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars, But
it was hold by the Ugand International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Note that the we have been officially instructed the Ugandan Finance
Minister Hon. Matia Kasaija to release the fund to you immediately
through the Bank of Uganda (BOU) headquarter in Kampala capital of the
Republic Of Uganda, Note this paying bank was mandated by the United
Nations former Secretary-General Kofi Atta Annan of Ghana. In view of
this great opportunity in your favor, You are advised to quickly
contact Hon. Matia Kasaija right away for him to send you a copy of
the certificate of fund ownership and Certificate of fund payment
approval for you to fill the 2 form by yourself / by yourlawyer or by
any of your relatives and keep a copy for yourself and return a copy
to the Finance Minister Hon. Mr. Matia Kasaija,

We are working round the clock to get hold of these individuals who in
one way or the other, masterminds the use of banks, courier service,
and embassies including the FBI and so many more organizations such as
UNITED NATIONS, EUROPEAN UNION, IMF, Bank of AMERICA, JP Morgan Chase
Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Interpol, EFCC, World Bank, Barclays Bank,
Royal Bank of Scotland, British High Commission, IMF, USA Customs,
E.T.C while posing as the real persons to extort money from their
victims. You are WARNED to STOP further communication either by phone
or email to any of these people except Hon Mr. Matia Kasaija Uganda
Finance Minister, Here is his email to contact (mkasaija35@gmail.com)
Contact him without wasting time and fill the forms once he send it to
you for immediate payment to your account,

Whatever this message contains is for you alone DO NOT share or
forward this mail to any individual, because there are so many persons
(criminals) on our list that are being hunted and this email must not
get out to a third party for security reasons because you don't know
who is who, if it does get to the wrong guy, these criminals will be
very much at alert that we are trailing them and it will make their
apprehension difficult for us. Reply to:mkasaija35@gmail.com

Regards,

MR JAMES PAGE
Direct email address
FBI SPECIAL AGENT TO AFRICA ON FOREIGN PAYMENT.
WhatsApp me or WhatsApp call with below phone number since I am in Africa,
(+1762-815-3034)

Anti-fraud resources: