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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: "NNPC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <nnpcexplorations1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:53:33 -0800
Subject: Re: Good Day

Hello Friend

My name is Abiodun Arokodare, I am the Chief financial officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). My company is government owned and we are into exploration and export of our country’s crude oil.

Last year our government invited bids from foreign companies for remodeling and upgrading of our oil refinery at Kaduna, Nigeria. The total value of the contract was (One Billion, Five Hundred Million U.S Dollars), but I and some of my friends incharge of the valuation over-invoiced the total contract to (Two Billion U.S Dollars). A letter of Credit was opened for the contractors through our Bank in London UK.

The contract has already been completed, and the actual contract value of (One Billion, Eight Hundred and Eighty Million US Dollars) has been paid to the contractor and sub-contractors remaining the over-invoiced sum of (120 Million U.S Dollars) floating in the account as unclaimed fund. We need a foreign company/individual we can use as one of the sub-contractors of the project and transfer the balance of 120 Million Dollars to their account. It will take less than ten working days to get all the payment approvals and transfer this fund to the account. We are ready to discuss sharing modality with you if you indicate your interest.

This is a risk free transaction as we are the officers to approve the payment. If you are interested, kindly contact me through the following email address: nnpcexplorations@gmail.com Please note that absolute confidentiality is required in this transaction even if you are not interested, unless you have somebody else who is capable of closing it. The fund can be transferred installmentaly according to your advice.

We await your immediate response.

Regards,

Abiodun Arokodare

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