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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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Fraud email example:

From: machi_2000@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:47:12 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=20REQUEST=20FOR=20MUTUAL=20BUSINESS=20RELATIONSHIP?=

THE DESK OF DR MACHI JOEL.
NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM
COROPERATION (NNPC)
FALOMO OFFICE COMPLEX
IKOYI LAGOS NIGERIA.

Dear Friend,


REQUEST FOR MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

Please permit me to introduce myself. I am Dr Machi Joel
the financial director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
It is truewe have not met before but I got your contact address through
a reliable source who assured me of your honest and trust orthiness which
was why Idecided to contact you with a business proposal that will be mutual

benefit to all of us. In 2002.

My corporation (NNPC) awarded a contract for the construction of oil storage
tanks at three of Nigerian refinneries at Port-Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna.The
value of this contract was US$75.5Million .

However, myself and some very top officials at the NNPC used our
position to inflate this contract to US$95.5 Million without the knowledge
of the government. This contract was approved and the original contractor
has successfully executed the contract and has received his due contract
sum of US$75.5Million under contract number NNPC/PED/0X04/98, leaving out
the over inflated
surplus of US$20 Million which is now ready to be transferred into any foreign
accountwe presented for this purpose.

Sir, you may wonder why we could not open a foreign account ourselves. It
is forbidden for government officials to open and operate offshore account.
This is why we needed your urgent assistance to provide us with a good company
or private account where the fund will be remitted into before we share
it in a ratio that will be acceptable to all of us.Furthermore, you shall
assist us to invest part of our share for a period of 2 years into a very
profitable business which will be reviewed periodicially untill we retire
in 5years time.

If you are willing to assist us in this business venture, kindly
contact us through the above E-mail address and include your direct Telephone
and Fax numbers so that we can provide you with additional informations.
We assure you of 100% risk free in this transaction as we have done our
home work very well to ensure a hitch free remittance of this fund into
your account.

We thank you very much for your anticipated co-operation while we look forward
to your prompt response to this letter.

Yours faithfully,
Dr Machi Joel
Financial Director
NNPC
234-834-049-934




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