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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: moh1kolloma@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:54:54 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Good=20Will?=

Dear Sir,

We wish to solicit your assistance to provide us with a solution to a Cash
Release of Fourteen Million, Nine Hundred Thousand United States Dollars(US$14,900,000.00)in
your favour.

I got your contact through my in-law who works with Ministry of External
Affairs in Nigeria and a careful study of your business activities confirms
that you are the one we need. We are members of the special committee newly
instituted by the present civilian administration of President Olusegun
Obansanjo. Our duty is to review all contracts awarded to foreign Firms/contractors
from the ministry of petroleum since 1993 to May 28th 1999.

It may interest you to know that most of the contracts awarded were over
invoiced or inflated. One of such contract has been identified. The said
contract was originally executed by an Italian based firm (Straberg Italiano
Spa) in (1996), to supply 250,000 monax turbine polypropylene plant sand
150,000 bpsd for kaduna refinery. Pipeline reconstruction and computer ptimization
for plants "A" to Kaduna refinery, as part of the measure taken to aid the
turn around maintenance to recoup the almost collapsed refineries in Nigeria.

The total amount approved by the then military government was put at US$126,000.000.00.The
actual amount used for executing the contract was estimated to be US$140,900.000.00,which
has since been paid to the foreign contractor. The remaining US$14,900.000.00
was inflated.We have perfectly and successfully removed this money from
the treasury of the Central Bank of Nigeria and deposited in a security/finance
company in Europe through the assistance of one Diplomat Henry Smith who
is one of the Board members of the Security/Finance company.

We have decided and agreed to invest this said sum abroad before the end
of this year.Could you be interested and capable of meeting with this security/finance
company on our behalf to retrieve this fund and invest wisely in your area
before the end of this month,do urgently respond within the next 24 hours.


Your advise on our invest proposal will be highly appreciated .Please be
more open as to inform us the area of business you think and believe that
will be more profit oriented in your country.

Your percentage for going into partnership with us will be discussed and
agreed upon in our subsequent messages.

ADVICE: This project demands mutual support, commitment, confidentiality
and trust. Delay is dangerous. Therefore, we desire consistent and purposeful
participation as we thread the part of greatness. Confidentiality is our
watchword,mutual trust is our beacon.

I honestly assure you that this transaction is 100% risk-free.

Awaiting your urgent response.

Best regards,

Dr.Mohammed Kolloma



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