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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: "Monica Salois" <monicasalois1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cactc_department@strompost.org
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:30:39 +0000
Subject: Greetings



Dear Sir/Madam,

I am the chairman of the contract award committee /treasury controller of
the petroleun and natural resources 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 life time blessing we cannot afford to
miss. Upon indication of your interest to fully co-operate with us, a
payment application/information formwill 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 qarters/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. Mrs. Monica Salois


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