419 scam: Mark Williams <mw914353@gmail.com> UNITED BANK OF AFRICA

joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet

Try our spam filter!
Free trial for 30 days

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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
- "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- duongx2788@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mark Williams <mw914353@gmail.com>
Reply-To: aunitedbankof3@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 12:53:56 +0100
Subject: UNITED BANK OF AFRICA

--
UBA Bank Of Clevel and
1455 E Harrisburg Pennsylvania
United States

We are here by officially notifying you about the present arrangement
to pay you, your over due Winning Prize/inheritance fund which you
could not complete the process of the released of your transfer pin
code through the Digitized Payment System. and you have
spend a lot of money and a lot time sending money to different people
just to make sure you receive your fund and after you sent money
you'll received nothing.
We have decided to pay your funds through (ATM Visa Card) This
arrangement was initiated/constituted by the United Bank of America,
United Nation and Paris Club, due to fraudulent activities going on
within the world.

The United Bank of America, United Nations and Paris Club introduced
this payment arrangement as to enable our Contract ,Winning
Price,inheritance
beneficiary to receive their fund without any interference.the ATM
VISA Card was contracted and powered by world bank.The ATM VISA CARD
is credited with the sum of $50.2 Million united states dollars , it
is already loaded in the Master Card which you can use to access your
fund in any ATM Stand/location worldwide and remember that the maximum
withdrawal daily limit is Ten Thousand United States Dollars(US
$10,000.00)we have concluded delivery arrangement with the below
courier services companies and their delivery time is stated below.
DHL=4hrs/$100.00 ..... itunes card

FedEx Express=7hrs/$75.00... itunes card

UPS=9hrs/$50.00 ....itunes card

Once it gets to us the package will be delivered to your destination.

Kindly state in your response to this text and let me know which
courier company you would want us to use for the
shipment of your ATM VISA Card to you.
Contact email address duongx2788@gmail.com
Yours sincerely,
Mr John Stumpf
Chair Of the UBA Bank

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam