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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: stmcladam@yahoo.co.in
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:41:49 +0100
Subject: ACKNOWLEDGE

Phone: (24 hours): +234 803 0965979
Email: micladam@yahoo.co.in
mclsadams@hotmail.com

I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the oil ministry here in Nigeria,
for security reasons, I may not wish to disclose how I got your email address for now.


After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this business
proposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty eight million,
six hundred thousand united state bills (us28.6m) into your account. This fund resulted
from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to my ministry
and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries. The contract was executed,
commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract. Now, we are
left with the balance of us28.6m as the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately
over estimated for our own use. Please note that the law forbids civil servants to
operate or own foreign accounts hence this contact, we have agreed to share the money in
the following percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may be required by your government.

Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk hence the business was carefully
planned before it was successfully executed and we the officials involved in the deal have put many
years in service to our ministry. We have been exercising patience for this privilege for so long not
until the presidential announcement last week, that all foreign contractors owed be paid forthwith,
this will enable the presidency reconcile our debt ratio with the outside world and to most of us,
this is a lifetime blessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon indication of your interest to fully
co-operate with us, a payment application/information form will be sent to you via email for completion.
Note that the following information: a) bankers name and address, b) account number and account name and
c) your private phone number and email address will enable us seek/secure approval of the fund from the
concerned government quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking days.

As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank account, my partner and I will come over
to your country to arrange for our own share and possibly invest part of this money in your country.

Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction. I shall furnish you with some details about
myself. Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Engr. Adams. I. S. A



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