419 scam: Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI)® <melnais@ostkom.lv> YOUR ATM LAST NOTICE

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:
- "to your nominated bank account" (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)
- "transfer of your funds" (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)
- "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 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.
- deputy.georgevenizellos@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI)® <melnais@ostkom.lv>
Reply-To: officefiles1@126.com
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 22:43:02 +0100
Subject: YOUR ATM LAST NOTICE

--
FBI Headquarters in Washington, d.c.
Federal bureau of investigation
J. Edgar Hoover building
935 Pennsylvania avenue,
NW Washington, d.c. 20535-0001
Federal bureau of investigation (FBI)

Attention,

I am Christopher A. Wray the FBI Director After proper investigations we
discovered that your impending payment that have been withheld by
impostors claiming to be Bank officers in Africa, None existing
officials of any Real Bank, UK winning Lottery, Andy Lear of Hsbc
bank,Coca-Cola winning lottery and among a list of others is now under
our custody with the help of the Cyber Crimes Commission (CCc) and the
Local Police Force.

Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot on your personal
earned money just to conclude the successful transfer of your funds to
your nominated bank account by obtaining transfer documents as requested
by the impostors, costing you a lot of money but all to no avail The FBI
had to send some financial crime investigators from our head office in
NEW YORK Field to Africa,UK and Asia in other to carry out proper
investigation

The New FBI has giving authority to the International Monetary Funds
(IMF) to assist the Federal Ministry of Finance and all the organization
involved such as the Central Bank, Zenith Bank, and Legit lottery
organizations to immediately commence with the compensation of all the
beneficiaries awaiting the successful transfer of their funds With the
help of some of the best Internet investigators attached to the FBI, we
traced your information from the Internet as one of the beneficiaries
awaiting the successful transfer of funds to your nominated account.

I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best
way to carry out with the compensation exercise for transparency and
most especially to avoid re-occurrence of the delay in transferring your
funds and the high cost of procuring transfer documents and came to a
final conclusion as all head of organizations involved was duly
represented.

It was approved to be issued to you as a valid international ATM card
cash-able at any ATM machine designation in the world. The ATM account
has already been credited with your One million United States
dollars.($1,000 000.00 USD),with a daily Limit of withdrawal of Five
thousand United States Dollars.($5000.00 USD) The ATM card has already
been packaged and approved to be delivered to your doorstep via a
courier delivery service.

Contact Mr.George Venizelos at Email (Deputy.Georgevenizellos@gmail.com)
{Our FBI ATM Rep.} at the ATM PAYMENT CENTER and reconfirm your delivery
information as stated below and your security code with five digit(ATM
16033) number has to be submitted alongside with your delivery
information for security reasons

DELIVERY INFORMATION
FULL NAME:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
CELL PHONE NUMBER:
SCAN COPY OF YOUR VALID ID.

A RELIABLE AND A TRUSTED COURIER COMPANY HAS BEEN CONTACTED TO DELIVER
YOUR PACKAGE TO YOUR DESTINATION AS SOON AS YOU CONTACT MR.GEORGE
VENIZELOS HE WILL UPDATE YOU WITH THE COURIER COMPANY CONTACT ADDRESS IN
OTHER TO AVOID ANY UNDUE DELAY OF YOUR ATM CARD.

We also advise that you stop further communications with those impostors
and forward any correspondence / proposal you receive from them to Mr
George Venizelos in order for the FBI to bring justice to those still at
large.

Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI).
Christopher Asher Wray.

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam