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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: "denison den" <denison153@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:15:27 +0000
Subject: Compliment of the season

>From the desk of: DR.Adamechi. D. EZe
Executive Director/Financial Controller
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)
Falomo Office Annex
Lagos Nigeria

Dear Sir,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

I am the financial controller of Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC). I got your Contact address from an
associate working with the NigerianExport Promotion Council. I and my
colleagues are officials incharge of offshore remittance in
this Corporation (NNPC).

We are seeking your assistance to transfer of Forty Two
Million (US$42,000,000.00) to your account for further private
investment.

This amount accrued from an over-invoiced contract amount
for the construction of an Oil Refinery Sub- Stations in Nigeria
in 1999. The contract was valued for one Hundred and Twenty
Seven Million United States Dollar (US$127,000,000.00), but we
manipulated the figure to read one Hundred and Sixty Nine
Million United States Dollars($169,000,000.00) The extra
$42,000,000.00 is what we want to transfer now.

This contract has been completely executed and the
contractors have been paid their contract less this $42,000,000.00.
which is in a suspense account with the Central Bank of Nigeria,
the nations apex bank.

For your assistance, we have agreed to remunerate you with
15% because it is impossible for us to claim the amount without
foreign collaboration. 5% has been mapped outfor any
miscellaneous expenses that may be incurred by either party
during this business.

It may interest you to know that four years ago, we carried
out a similar transaction with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the
President of Craine International Trading Corporation at number 135
East 57th Street, 28th Floor,New York.10022 with Tel:
212-308-7788 and TLX number 6731689. Mr. Patrice disappeared into thin
air when he received the money. His Telephone and Telex numbers had
been reallocated to other users bythe time we arrived. This
explains exactly why we will make aconcrete agreement
between us, should you be willing to do thisdeal.

All modalities to effect the payment and subsequent transfer
of this moneyhave been worked out. This transaction is 100% risk
free but requires 100 percent confidentiality. You can rest
assured thatyour security hasbeen considered before you were
contacted.

Reply to my confidential E-mail:adamechi2@sify.com


phone:234-80-3716-7533

I await your urgent response.

Best Regards,

Dr.Adamechi. D. EZe, Mni


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