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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: "Mr. Ibrahim Msabaha" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ibrahim.msabaha@ciudad.com.ar>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:08:43 +0200
Subject: Mutual Understanding

The Ministry of Energy and Minerals
P.O.Box 2001
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania.

Compliment of the day to you,

My name is Mr.Ibrahim Msabaha and am the Commissioner of the ministry of energy and minerals, I am sorry if this letter come to you as an embarrassment but be rest assured that it is on trust i am contacting you and I beg you to treat it with strict confidentiality for the sake of this transaction.

In the year 2006 the ministry of energy and minerals awarded a contract of five billion Dollar for mining of uranium to consortium of two firms namely Palabora Mining Company Limited, South Africa and Storsack France Sas, France the project has been completed in the year 2010. And much of short term loan and related debts paid off and with my position as the commissioner in the said department with collaboration of some colleague we have been able to reschedule for part of the payment already made to Storsack France Sas, France, the sum of thirty million U.S. Dollars. We took advantage of some irregularities in the corporations account records and this amount of thirty Million was easily reflected in the corporations update statement of account as outstanding debt owed and ready for payment.

All we need you to do is work with us and act as a contractor in a foreign country and receive this money on our behalf and We have agreed to give you 30% shared as the account owner 60% among us here in Tanzania 10% is set aside for expenses that may incurred during procure of documentation and the transfer of the funds into your account.

Please send the following information so we could proceed upon your agreement to this transaction.

1. Your Physical Address, Telephone and Fax number where you can be reached easily.

Finally, may you be notified about our meeting on neutral ground of any African country as soon as your in contact with me i will brief you on particulars which need to be submitted to various ministry and also for us to meet to see and have a face to face discussion with each other. Documents to back up this project executed by you or your company here in Tanzania will be sent to you from various ministry for evidence of transaction.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Ibrahim Msabaha

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