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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: Johnson Chidi <johnson.chidi2@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:31:16 +0100 (BST)
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL


We are making this contact with you after satisfactory
information gathered from the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce.
Based on this, we are convinced that you will provide us
with a solution to effect remittance of the sum of
$35,500.000.00 resulting from over costing of job/services
done for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),
by foreign companies.

We are top officials of NNPC. We evaluate and secure
approvals for payment of contracts executed for NNPC. We
have tactfully raised values to a foreign company for onward
disbursement among ourselves the Director of
Accounts/Finance
and Director of Audit. This transaction is
100% safe. We are seeking your assistance and permission to
remit this amount into your account.

We have agreed to give you 25% of the total value, while our
share will be70%.The remaining5% will be used as refund by
both sides to off set the cost that must be incurred in the
areas of public relations, engaging of legal practitioner as
attorney, taxation and other incidentals in the course of
securing the legitimate release of the fund into your
account.

Please indicate your acceptance to carry out this
transaction urgently on receipt of this letter. I shall in
turn inform you of the modalities for a formal application
to secure the necessary approvals for the immediate
legitimate release of this fund into your account.

Please understand that
this transaction must be held in
absolute privacy and confidentiality.






Thanks for your co-operations.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Johnson Chidi






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