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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: radebe@radebe7.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:52:35 +0100 (CET)
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL TO SUPPLY AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENTS.


URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL TO SUPPLY AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENTS.
No upfront payment is needed from you.
Compliment of the season.

I am writing to solicit for your cooperation in a multi million dollars international contract supply for the government of South Africa. I am a South African based in Europe but with strong contacts and links to the government of South Africa. but I was opportune to bid for a contract with the name of a foreign company which was won and approved, but due to my status and the limited nature of my company in fulfilling the contract supplies, I am contacting you to stand in as my foreign sub-contractor / partner to actualise the contract for an initial mobilisation fee of 10% entitlement would be released to you or your company to take up the contract supply.
one of the criteria for awarding the contract to me is the agreement that the contract will be over-invoiced to the tune of us$500,000{five hundred thousand U.S dollars}, and this will be made available to the government officials who facilitated the award of this contract to me, however i have found a financier who has agreed to make the amount available.

With the payment of the whole or part of the over-invoiced amount to these government officials, they will approve the initial mobilisation fee to us amounting to the sum of us$5,000,000. {Five million u s dollars}

We are however instinctively trusting on your unalloyed support and commitment to work with me on this project, also i am relying on your goodwill and trustworthiness. be rest assured that we will not solicit nor ask you for any upfront payment or any financial commitment on this project, rather we shall ensure that our financier makes available to you the part or the full initial us$500,000{five hundred thousand dollars},that will cause the initial payment of the mobilisation fee of $5million to us.

You should treat this matter as confidentially as possible. Please send your response to my email address below.

Email: - dradebedudu@aim.com
MR. DUDU RADEBE
N/B. Please you can contact me on this my private email- radebedudu@aim.com for more details.

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