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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: "Frank Kunle Ojo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <frank.ojo@btinternet.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:52:46 +0100
Subject: Confirm receipt of my email pls

Dear Sir/Madam, With high regard and confidentiality, we avail you this information. We are members of four men Contract Review Panel set up by the Federal Government to recommend to the government completed contract projects during Turn around Maintenance (TAM) of the Port Harcourt Refinery in the Ministry of Petroleum and further advice on immediate payment to prospective beneficiary/contractor The government is currently short listing names of successful contractors whose contract job was executed and commissioned during the past President time in office between 2007-2010.This is in line with the agenda of this Acting President Dr. Good Luck Jonathan. We want to seek your assistance with respect to facilitating this opportunity to enable us include your name among the successful beneficiaries/contractors. Before delivering our recommendations to the government, we deliberately inflated a completed contract done by a foreign firm. It is this inflated amount sum of US$48,250,000.00 (Forty eight Million, two hundred and fifty thousand United States Dollars) that we seek your assistance to present a good account to receive the money as a contractor. We have already made arrangement to include your name in the schedule for payment which will be submitted to the Government and also have people in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation who will assist us with all the required documents to back you for the claim.. We have made elaborate consultations and agreed unanimously on investing this money into a profitable business investment portfolio in your country through your able assistance and cooperation. Be assured that all we shall do shall be adequately guided as you are guaranteed of your protection and no risk on your part. We look forward to your response and interest to work with us. Upon the successful confirmation of the money in your custody, we agreed that you shall hold 15% and you shall advice on the areas of investment you can put in the money as we are still in active service and cannot receive such money for now. You shall control the investment on a five year period projection. Thank you in anticipation of immediate response. Yours faithfully, Mr. Frank Ojo Contract Review Panel (CRP) Headquarters,Lagos Nigeria

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