joewein.net   joewein.de LLC
fighting spam and scams on the Internet
Try our spam filter!
 Free trial for 30 days
   jwSpamSpy
Home
About Us
Spam
419/Nigeria
Fraud
Contact

"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.

Click here to report a problem with this page.

 

 

Fraud email example:

From: Abdul James <jmsabdul2052@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:12:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Attn: Your Assistance Is Solicited Here


Dear sir,

SOLICITING YOUR ASSISTANCE
I am making this contact to you on behalf of my colleagues after a satisfactory information we gathered from the internet about you.

I am an Accountant with the NNPC and a members of the Contractor Review Committee of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I have been mandated by my colleagues to look for a trustworthy company/individual into whose account we would want to transferr some fund. The funds in question is $40.5M (forty million, five hundred thousand US dollars) now with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The above funds arose from an over-invoicing of some supplies and oil drilling works which have been executed and concluded.

It is in this respect that we are now looking for a foreign contractor/company/individual to apply for the payment. Payment can only be made into foreign account hence this contact is necessary to execute this deal. You (or your company) shall be compensated with 30% of the total amount as the account owner, while the remaining 65% for my colleagues and I. While the remaining 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that may be incured in the curse of this transfer.

The underlisted shall be required from you immediately by email:- the beneficiary's name and confidential telephone and fax numbers, the full name and address of company/beneficiary. All necessary particulars of the bank account where you wish the contract fund to be transferred into (account number, bank address, the telephone, fax and telex numbers of the bank).

As soon as we receive the requested information from you, we shall put up an application for fund transfer to the appropriate ministries and parastatals in favour of the beneficiary ie. (you or your company). Thereafter the beneficiary would officially be regarded as having executed the contract for the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for which payment is being made.

Please, we implore you to treat this deal with utmost confidentiality. As civil servants, we would not want any exposure. Every correspondence should be strictly by email for now.


Please reply me to jmsabdul205@yahoo.com

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.

Best regards,

Mr. Abdul James




__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com

Anti-fraud resources: