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"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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: edward jumiala <edwardjumiala7@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:12:42 -0700
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT FROM NIGERIA


Dear sir,

RE: THE SUDDEN REQUEST TO CHANGE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS BY YOUR ALLEGED
PARTNER FOR THE FINAL TRANSFER OF YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE FUNDS.

Based on our investigation of your payment, we want to find out if you're
still alive or did you mandate (Mr. Max Ernst.) from Switzerland to
receive your fund as he presented the bank account indicated here below and
told us that you had passed through Covid 19?
Avera Bank, Bahnhofstr.
Bank address: CH-552219 53, Pfäffikon-Zürich
CH 8330 Pfaeffikon-ZH, Swift RBABCH22850.
Ac No: 4433287954.
IBAN CH41 0685 0396 9033 6190 6
Beneficiary: Max Ernst.
Beneficiary Address: Russikerstr. 69, CH-8330 Pfaeffikon-ZH, Switzerland

Nevertheless, if the claim of Mr Max Ernst from Switzerland is not true, do
urgently reconfirm the following under listed details today to enable us
conduct final verification in your payment file and take the final decision
to effect the irrevocable transfer of your funds.

Your Full Names..........
Your Home/Office Address............
Your Tel Phone And cell phone..........
Your Occupation..................
Your Age/Sex...............
First Page of Your international Passport or Driver's License...........

This is because Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
has been approved in your favor as part payment of your inherited
contract fund .

Your immediate confirmation with the above requested information is being
awaited otherwise your approved inherited contract payment will be
transferred to the bank account presented by Mr Max Ernst.

Regards.
Edward Jumiala,
Director.
Debt Management Office of Nigeria,Plot 447/448 Constitution Avenue,
Central Business District, P.M.B. 532, Garki Abuja, Nigeria.
Direct Telephone number :+234-7025001507.

(This message contains confidential information and is intended only for
the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not
disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender
immediately by e-mail if you have received this email by mistake and delete
this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to
be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted,
lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender
therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the
contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.
If verification is required please request a hard-copy _version.)

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