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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: "John Ebere" <john_ebere2@msn.com>
Reply-To: drjohnebere1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:22:31 +0000
Subject: FROM DR.JOHN EBERE.

Dear Friend,

REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL

After due deliberation with my colleagues, I decided to forward this
proposal. We want a reliable person who could assist us to transfer the sum
of Thirty Million United States Dollars (US$30,000,000.00) into your
account.

This fund resulted from an over-invoced bill from contract awarded by us
under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for
payment by the concerned ministries. The contract has been executed,
commissioned and the contractor was paid the actual cost of the contract. we
are left with the balance of US$30,000,000.00 as part of the over-invoiced
amount, which we have deliberately over estimated, for our own I am
contacting you to be our custodian for this fund.

1. 20% for you (Account Owner)
2. 70% for us
3. 10% for Tax, as may required by our Government and yours.

As you may want to know and to make you less curious,I got your address from
adverts, in business directory that protrayed your establishment in good
light. I am the Secretary of the Contract Awarding Committee (CAC)of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). This transaction is very
much free from all sorts of RISK and TROUBLE from my Government.

We have been exercising patience for this opportunity for so long and to
most of us this is a life time opportunity we cannot affford to miss. To get
this fund paid into your account, we have to present a Payment Invoice from
a foreign establishment like yours. With this invoice, we will seek approval
to transfer the fund within 14 banking days through the APEX BANK to your
designatd Bank Account.

I and one of my colleague involved in this deal will come to your country to
arrange for our share upon the confirmation from you that the money has been
credited into your nominated Bank Account.

Consequently upon your acceptance of my proposal,kindly confirm your
interest by revert mail to the above e/mail address It will surprise you why
we choose you and trusted you for this transaction. Yes, we believe that
good friends can be discovered and business like this cannot be realized
without trust.

This is why we have decided to trust you for this transaction. we are
looking forward to doing this transaction with you.Be further informed that
everyone's interest and security had been considered before you were
contacted. So be rest assured and feel free to go into this transaction with
us. But let honesty be our watch word throughout this transaction and your
prompt reply will be highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Dr.John Ebere.
NOTE ON ACCEPTANCES OF THIS PURPOSAL LET ME HAVE YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
IMMEDIATELY TO ENABLE US HAVE ORAL DISCUSSION.
THANK YOU!


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