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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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Fraud email example:

From: ibok@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:26:41 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Good=20Day=20=21?=

Good day,

Re; Transfer of US$7.5 million to you.

My name is Sen. Essien.E.Ibok, I am a member of the Advisory Committe on
Oil & Gas in the Presidency.Ihave the sum of US$7.5Millon cash which I secured
from the sales and distribution of crude oil and petroleum products worldwide.


I decide to solicit your assistance to secure the fund for our personal
use, it is already in the vaults of a Financial Firm aborad, the fund was
scheduled to be transfered via diplomatic means to Union Bank of Switzerland
UBS) before I advised the diplomats to withheld the fund on transit, please,
I want to use a God fearing foreigner (like you) for the transaction.

Hence we can no longer use my name, I hereby solicit that you kindly furnish
to me your information (name and address, phones and fax numbers) and assistance
to secure the fund in your country. I have to compensate you with 25% of
the total fund (US$7.5million) for providing neccessary assistance to secure
the fund in your country, while the balance I will used
for investments (car sales, real estate,manufacturing, agriculture, etc)
as you will advice, this transaction is 100% risk free as all relevant details
of the fund will be furnished to you on receipt of your reply.

Do not hesitate to contact me only on this email address below as the transaction
needs urgent attention and must be confidential .

Thanks and God bless,

Sen. Essien.Emmanuel Ibok
Email:essienibok@box.az




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