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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: "jerry madueke" <jerrymadueke@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jerrymadueke@myway.com
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:30:36 +0100
Subject: Business proposal

Attention Sir/Madam,


I am the Director of Projects Ministry of Agriculture / Chairman foreign
contract committee. By the virtue of my position and the power bestowed on
us by the Federal Government of Nigeria, We carefully and deliberately over
invoiced some contracts in my ministry to the tune of $12.5 million united
states dollars. The contracts have been fully executed and commissioned and
payments are about to be made to all foreign contractors. Hence, I want you
to assist me with a foreign account anywhere that can be used to receive the
over invoiced sum for our mutual benefits since the law of my country does
not permit us as a civil servants to own a foreign bank account while in the
service.

We have agreed that whoever provided us with offshore bank account will have
a meeting anywhere agreed with both parties before the final release of the
money to his designeted account to discuss the percentage sharing of the
fund.

To commence this transaction, we require you to indicate your interest by a
return e-mail and enclose the following
informations:-

1. Full name and adress.
2: Your private telephone number and Fax number.
3. Occupation and Nationality.


Regards,

Mr Jerry Madueke.


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