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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: "Charles Soludo" <profcharles@centralbanknigcbn.com>
Reply-To: cbnchiefexecutive@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 08:16:53 +0000
Subject: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT

FROM THE DESK OF THE GOVERNOR
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA(CBN)
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
Telefax:+234-1-7596768

ATTN: CONTRACTOR

IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT.CONTRACT #:MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/214.

From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with the
federal government of Nigeria your name and company was discovered as
next on the list of the outstanding contractors who have not received
their payments.

I wish to inform you that your payment is being processed and will be
released to you as soon as you respond to this letter.Also note that
from my record in my file your outstanding contract payment is us$25.7
million dollars(twenty five million seven hundred thousand united
states dollars).

Please re-confirm to me if this is inline with what you have in your
record and also re-confirm to me the following

1)Your full name.
2)Phone, Fax and Mobile #.
3)Company name,Position and Address.
4)Bank account details
5)Profession, age and marital status.
6)Any form of identification.

As soon as this informations are received, your payment file will be
submitted to the office of the President federal republic of Nigeria for his
presidential approval and enduresment before our accredited corresponding
bank in Europe will effect wire transfer to your bank account directly. The
contact details of the our corresponding bank in Europe will be given to you
as soon as I receive the above informations. Get back to me on this
e-mail:profcharles@centralbanknigcbn.com

Regards,

Prof.Charles Soludo.


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