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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: =?utf-8?q?Yakubu=20Usman?= <yakubuusman02@yahoo.com.co>
Reply-To: yakubu_usman@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:46:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION.


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:yakubuusman02@yahoo.com.co



- Dear Friend, With my compliments. I am making this contact with you on behalf of my colleague, the Auditor General and myself, to seek for your support to facilitate the transfer of this US$19.4 million to a safe account away from here. For your information, this fund resulted from over-inflated contract figures in our Corporation, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company NLNG. I am the senior Director of accounts in the Tender Board Committee of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company. Our duties in the TENDER BOARD COMMITTEE include: award, evaluation and review of every contract in the NLNG. In 2006, my committee awarded a contract of US$180,000,000 (One Hundred and Eighty Million United States Dollars) to a joint venture of FOUGEROLLES & JULIUS BERGER NIGERIA PLC, for an engineering, procurement, construction of pipeline network at Eleme, Port Harcourt Petro-Chemical plant. As it were, the actual contract amount was deliberately over-invoiced by us by the sum of US$25,000,000.00 (TWENTY-FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY). The project was executed, commissioned and the contractors paid their due amount accordingly. And now, my colleague and I want to transfer our own share of the surplus/eccess amount into a viable foreign account. We have therefore resolved that as long as you can act as the facilitator and provide the necessary support for the transfer of this fund, the following sharing mode will be honored : 70% for us in the NLNG, 20% for you i.e. provider of account, 10% for expenses incurred during the course of fund transfer. I am waiting for your reply for more info on this matter.Sicerely, Dr. Yakubu Usman Bello.


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