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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: emmanuel_nwankwo@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:09:43 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?urgent=20reply?=

FROM THE DESK OFMR EMMANUEL NWANKWO
ALTERNATIVE Email: emmanuel_nwankwo@yahoo.com

TO: THE PRESIDENT/CEO

Dear Sir,

PROPOSAL FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP/ASSISTANT

Permit me to introduce myself. I am MR EMMANUEL NWANKWO the finance director
in the
foreign payment department of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) under the Federal ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources.


With the assistance of some senior official of the Central Bank
of Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Finance, we want to quietly transfer
the sum of Twenty-One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States dollars (US$21.5M) out of my country Nigeria.

This US $21.5 Million was made quietly by over-invoicing of contract receipts
for the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of the two Port Harcourt refineries
in Nigeria and the rehabilitation of Petroleum pipelines, depot and Jetties.


The actual contract value is put at US$258.5M, but I and my colleagues increased
the contract value to US280M, of which the over-invoiced value of US$21.5M
belongs to us and this is the amount we want to secretly transfer into your
personal OR company account for safe keeping and sharing.

The Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Petroleum resources have
approved the total value of US$280Million, and the payment of foreign contractors
from Japan, France and U.S.A. has already started, because most part of
the work for the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) has been fully Completed,
as we will register you/your company as a consultant and job costing contractor
to NNPC so that the US$21.5M can be transferred into your account without
any hitch whatsoever.

This over-invoiced value of US$21.5M belongs to us, and this amount is still
lying in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) coded account
with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). As civil servants, we cannot operate
foreign account because of the code of conduct act in Nigeria, which makes
it an offence for any civil servant to operate foreign account.

It is as a result of this, that we solicit for your assistance to make use
of your PRIVATE or COMPANY'S bank account to transfer the US$21.5M.


After several discussions with my colleagues, we have decided that you will
be entitled to 25% of the US$21.5M for providing us the account/assistance
for the successful completion of this mutually beneficial business, while
70% will be for us (from Nigeria) and the remaining 5% would be used to
offset all local/foreign expenses we might incur in the course of this transaction.

However, this is based on the ground that you will assure me of the followings:

(a) That after the successful transfer of the US$21.5M into your account,
you will give us our own fare share of 70%.

(b) That you will treat this business with utmost secrecy, confidentiality

and sincerity which it demands.

(c) That you will assist us (by way of advice) to invest our
own share in a business venture in your country, in the importation of your
company's finished products and high-tech machineries and also in the buying
of properties.

If you are interested in assisting us in this transaction, please contact
me immediately on my e-mail address
to enable us discuss further details for the successful completion of this
transaction.

You are required to provide a secured telephone and fax line for
the purpose of this transaction.

Expecting to here from you soonest.

Yours faithfully,
EMMANUEL NWANKWO





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