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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: Fred Martins <fmt_002n@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:27:15 -0500 (EST)
Subject: From the office of Dr.Federick Martins


From the office of Dr.Federick Martins
Nigerian National Petroleum Co-operation
Plaza(NNPC)
Plot 226 Old secretariate way,
Ikoyi- Lagos
Nigeria

Hello,

I know this mail may come as a surprise to you,since we do not know
ourselves or have any previous contact before now,my purpose of
writting you is this.I believe that you would be in a position to assist in our bid to transfer the sum of TWENTY-SIX MILLION FOUR HUNFRED THOUSAND DOLLARS($26.4m)into a foreign account.

We are members of a special committee for budget and planning of the
ministry of petroleum,this committee is principally concern with
contract appraisals and approvals in order of priorities as regards capital project of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
With our positions,we have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of Twenty-six million four hundred thousand unitedstate dollars($26.4m).

The present Government in my country are seeking the surport of foreign Government/Investores,so they gave directive to all Federal parastatals to compile and settle all foreign contractors being owed for contract executed,so our plan is to include you as one of the contractors being owed in my corporation,the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)This way alone we can be able to transfer to your account the said amount.

What we need from you is:-

(1)A company name or a name of which to use as the company that
executed the contract

(2)An account even if empty, which the fund will be transfered into,this is because our code of conduct prohibit Government officials from operating or owning foreign account.

(3)Your Private Telephone Number and Fax Number.
If you know that you are reliable and bold to partake in this
project as a principle partner,i will like you to get across to me
urgently for more details.

Please treat as urgent and Very confidential as i look forward to your reply.

Best Regards

Dr.Federick Martins




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