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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: Udoma Udo <udomaudo@yahoo.it>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:27:28 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Attn



FROM THE DESK OF
ENGR UDOMA UDO UDOMA
NNPC H/QUATERS
FALOMO OFFICE COMPLEX
LAGOS STATE NIGERIA
Attn:President/CEO.
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

I am the financial controller of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I got your Contact address from an associate working with the Nigerian
Export Promotion Council. I and my colleagues are officials in charge of offshore remittance in this Corporation (NNPC).

We are seeking your assistance to transfer of Forty Two Million (US$42,000,000.00) to your account for further private investment.

This amount accrued from an over-invoiced contract amount for the construction of an Oil Refinery Sub- Stations in Nigeria in 1999. The contract was valued for one Hundred and Twenty Seven Million United States Dollar (US$127,000,000.00), but we manipulated the figure to read one Hundred and Sixty Nine Million United States Dollars($169,000,000.00) The extra $42,000,000.00 is what we want to transfer now.

This contract has been completely executed and the contractors have been paid their contract less this $42,000,000.00. which is in a suspense account with the Central Bank of Nigeria, the nations apex bank.

For your assistance, we have agreed to remunerate you with 15% because it is impossible for us to claim the amount without foreign collaboration. 5% has been mapped out for any miscellaneous expenses that may be incurred by either party during this business.

It may interest you to know that four years ago, we carried out a similar transaction with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the President of Craine International Trading Corporation at number 135 East 57th Street, 28th Floor,New York.10022 with Tel: 212-308-7788 and TLX number 6731689. Mr. Patrice disappeared into thin air when
he received the money. His Telephone and Telex numbers had been reallocated to other users by the time we arrived. This explains exactly why we will make a
concrete agreement between us, should you be willing to do this deal.

All modalities to effect the payment and subsequent transfer of this money have been worked out. This transaction is 100% risk free but requires 100 percent confidentiality.
You can rest assured that your security has been considered before you were contacted.

I await your urgent response.

Best Regards,

ENG UDOMA U UDO
Executive Director/Financial Controller



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