419 scam: Mr John MCPaul <ubabank595@gmail.com> US$650,000.00 . T-Mobile Relief Fund!!!.

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.
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
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.
- jp846412@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr John MCPaul <ubabank595@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jp846412@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:48:27 +0100
Subject: US$650,000.00 . T-Mobile Relief Fund!!!.

T-Mobile US, Inc.
Bellevue, Washington, United States

Attention Email ID Owner !!!

US$650,000.00 . T-Mobile Relief Fund!!!.

This is to inform you that a Lottery Winning payment in the amount of
US$650,000.00 United States Dollars (Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
United States Dollars) was legally approved and deposited with
Trust-Co Bank , by T-Mobile online promotional sweepstakes that takes
place every Tuesday to help Easy the high rate of unemployment and
poverty alleviation caused by this global pandemic (Covid19) since
March 2020.

The lottery won by your e-mail address via online Google active email
address sweepstakes balloting selected from the sponsor of the
T-Mobile US, Inc. award. It was registered with your email address by
the Lottery Board Executive Directors Of T-Mobile US, Inc. award
Washington Branch, and has been deposited with Trust-Co Bank for
immediate release to you as soon as possible.

You are the second lucky winner of the Global T-Mobile US With
provisional Number: BATCH NO: (559)468-6644/188 // REF NO:475061711
// SECRET PIN CODE: T-MOBILE/13/13

Note:That you have to reconfirm your details to Trust-Co Bank
remitting Direct Mr John MCPaul for fast disbursement of your fund to
you without any further delay.

1. Full Name:
2. Address:
3. Nationality:
4. Age: Date of Birth:
5. Occupation::
6. Phone: Mobile/Cellular .
7. State of Origin:.
8. Copy of your identity Card driving license

Here is contact of the bank and the remitting manager for immediate
release of your fund without any further delay and please try to
listen and follow his instruction so that you will have your winning
with any hatch .

Name: Mr John MCPaul
Email: jp846412@gmail.com
Yours Faithfully,
Rose
T-Mobile US Inc
Public regulator

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam