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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: dalhatumohammedng@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 10:16:18 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?IT=20IS=20A=20DEAL=2CRUN=20IT=20WITH=20ME=2E?=

NIGERIA LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS(NLNG)
HEAD OFFICE:NLNG BUILDING
BONNY ISLAND
PORT-HARCOURT
RIVERS STATE-NIGER DELATA,
NIGERIA
DESK OF THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL
EMAIL:dalhatumohammedng@tsamail.co.za

DEAR FRIEND,

RE: PLEASE RUN THIS DEAL WITH ME.

I am extending this proposal to you in my capacity as Chief Accountant and
in full agreement with the Auditor-General of this company (Nigerian Liquefied
Natural Gas Company). After the third quarter internal audit carried on
all records and accounts of awarded and executed contracts of this company
(NLNG) since inception of democracy in Nigeria, a whopping sum of USD52.3M
was uncovered to be floating.

It might interest you to know that The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company
came into full working capacity during the current civilian dispensation
at a working/asset capacity of USD3Billion and will definitely gulp more
USD2Billion on the completion of the fifth part.

The money USD52.3M has been approved for payment by this company NLNG, The
Federal Ministry of Finance (Endorsed by the Accountant General of the Federation)and
to be paid by the Apex Bank of Nigeria under Contract Number NLNG/FGN/FMF/CBN/C987/04.

As top civil servants, we are not authorized to operate Foreign Bank account
hence our decision to use your account on full trust and confidence to transfer
this money outside Nigeria.

We have jointly agreed to transfer the funds into your account provided
you will consent and prove that you can be trusted.I will regularize the
approvals to reflect you as the beneficiary of the funds.

We have resolved to give you 25% of the total sum for your assistance. If
you are capable of assisting with the transfer, please contact me immediately
through the email.


Very Best Regards.


Dr.DALHATU MOHAMMED



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