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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: "Timi Aleibe" <timialeibe@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 08:46:47 -0800
Subject: received your payment?

DAER SIR



The government of Nigeria is happily celebrating a major boom in the oil
market which saw us making more than 200% gain more than we budgeted. In the
light of this, we have been seriously warned by the IMF and other
international financial bodies to make sure we settle most of our
outstanding foreign debt.

Hence the presidency set up this panel on the 1st of October to take care of
20 approved contract/diplomatic payment outstanding for the past 5 years.
Yours happened to be among these approved payment.

But sir, a very surprising records were discovered that is why you have not
been contacted about this since then. Records showed that your payment has
been approved four times and duly and completely paid two times. Also we
found out that these funds totaling almost $120,000,000.00 (One hundred and
twenty million United States dollars) was transferred directly from our
central bank to two different bank accounts in different countries with the
same beneficiary name. This resulted in bringing the u .s and British
government into the case and we really want you to explain to us what you
know.

Most baffling is that this payment keeps coming up in every period of
contract payment verification and always receives approval.

Have you received your payment?

Help us help you. If we do not hear from you immediately we will assume you
are involved and have received an over payment which should be returned to
Nigeria



YOURS TRULY,


PROF. TIMI ALEIBE

(CHAIRMAN)


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