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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: adamso24@eresmas.com
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 13:15:11 -0800
Subject: FRIENDSHIP

Phone: (24 hours): 234 802 764 0445
Email:REPLY- adamso21@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. ST. MICHAEL





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