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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: "Dr. Mallam Mele Kyari" <works@chaukas.in>
Reply-To: office.contactus2q@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 08:33:24 -0700
Subject: Corporation (NNPC)

From: Dr. Mallam Mele Kyari

Dearest Reader/Friend,

Your contact was given to me by a friend who was on a diplomatic mission in your country upon my enquiry for a reliable firm/individual to engage in business.

The same guarantees your reliability and trust-worthiness in business matters. I therefore wish to explain this lucrative business intention for our mutual benefit, though I did not let that friend have the real idea of my intended business proposal due to the level of confidentiality which the transaction demands.

I am the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (N.N.PC), Headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. I am in a position to remit the sum of $ 150,800,000.00 into a reliable foreign bank account for our personal use. This sum of $150,800,000.00 originated from a deliberate over-invoice (in the contract payment voucher) of total value of contracts awarded to some foreign contractors for the supply and erection of petrochemical and pipeline equipment to “Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (N.N.PC), ” refinery, Finnima, in Rivers State of Nigeria in 2015.

With the view that as soon as the beneficiary contractors receive their full contract payments, we claim the balance for our personal use. The contractors who executed the relative contracts have since been paid their full contract sums leaving the $150,800,000.00 floating in the federated account of “Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (N.N.PC), ” with the Central Bank of Nigeria, secured as credit/payment to a foreign contractor.

It is therefore due for us to claim this balance sum as final phase payment to a foreign contractor but we cannot accomplish this without collaborating with a foreign firm into whose account this sum will be transferred as the beneficiary of the fund. Moreover, as civil servants, we are not allowed to operate foreign accounts.

It is to this effect that I have been mandated to communicate with you for maximum assistance/co-operation. For your understanding, we (partners here) have solidified and perfected arrangements to push out this fund legitimately on legal grounds in such a way that no risk of partners on either side is involved. We have made careful and necessary arrangements for the smooth transfer of the fund to your account as would be provided.

For your assistance, we have agreed to compensate you with 25% of the whole sum to be transferred to your account and 5% set aside to replenish expenses incurred in the process of the transaction while 70% comes to the officials on my side. Let me know immediately your interest and willingness to enable me furnish you with the model's operandi of the business.


Dr. Mallam Mele Kyari.
Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)

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