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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: kevin chuma <kchuma55@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:39:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: urgnet


Kevin Chuma.
Chuma & Associates,
23 Commercial Road, Apapa
Lagos - Nigeria
DEAR CHOON,
I am an Independent Auditor attached to the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, Lagos- Nigeria by the Federal Government of Nigeria. In
the course of our auditing, we discovered huge sums of
money, to the tune of us $18,335,000.00 (eighteen Million , three
hundred and thirty five
thousand United States Dollars only), remaining unclaimed on a contract
awarded to a Japanese Company who executed a contract for the
Corporation in May 2002.The PROJECT has since been commissioned. in June,
2003. The contract number is NNPC-KADREF/CI/097/02.
The original contract amount is US$33 MILLION. The sum of US$15 million
has been paid to the company as mobilization fees. Mr. Kaoru Uno who
is the managing director of the company died four months after
completing the contract on a ghastly motor accident while pursuing his contract
claim. As no body has claimed this money more than eighteen months
after commissioning the contract , we wish to
transfer this money into your account as the sister company to Mr.
Kaoru Uno's SUCCESS CO. LTD.
We shall give you 20% of the total money . This will be made after all
expenses have been deducted from the total sum of US$18.35million. If
you are interested, please get back to me so that I
will let you know how we will proceed with the transfer of the fund
into your account and give
you further details.
Thanks for anticipated response.
Yours truly,
Kevin Chuma

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