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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: "chuks charles" <chukscharles9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cbnprofcharlessoludo@myway.com
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:07:15 +0000
Subject: URGENT

From the Desk Of:
Prof Charles Soludo
Executive Governor (CBN).

ATTN: SIR/MADAM,
My name is Prof Charles.C.Soludo, the Executive Governor of the Central Bank
of Nigeria. I am from Nigeria and also a married man with two kids.
As the Executive Governor of the bank, it's my duty to send financial
reports to any where in the world.

On the course of the last year 2004 end of this year's financial report, I
discovered Thirty Million Dollars (30,000,000.00) that a contract with the
federal government was executed by a foreign contractor, who at the point of
execution did not receive his payments. Coupled with the fact that the
computer departments of the central bank was burn down some months ago
before I resumed this humble office in May 2004, and all available
information as regards the information that was dropped by the foreign
contractor was missing as well, when we were able to trace burnt files we
were only left with his country name(A FOREIGNER) which I can not see
clearly.
As a result, I, want to transfer this sum to a trusted Oversea Partner as
the true beneficiary, through the Central Bank of Nigeria, as we
Civil Servants in Nigeria are not allowed to operate foreign Account.
Further more, I have PLACED this fund on a SUSPENCE ACCOUNT without a
beneficiary.
As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to
this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this
money into your bank account. I intend to part 40% of this fund t o you, 10%
for the expenses incurred in documents, while 50% shall be for me.
I need to assured you that there are practically no risks involved in this
transaction.
It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you
is to stand as the original contractor of this fund by assisting me with a
foreign account where this fund will be deposited.

Finally, I will appreciate your timely response and upon the reply of this
message, I will send some of the vital documents to avoid any distraction
over this transaction and to prove the genuine of
this business.

YOURS SINCERELY,
PROFESSOR CHARLES C. SOLUDO,
GOVERNOR, CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN).
NOTE:RESPONSE SHOULD BE MADE ON THISEMAIL:cbnprofcharlessoludo@myway.com

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