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.

 

 

Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Nelson Chinedu" <nelson_chinedu2005@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: moali1234@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:59:21 +0000
Subject: urgent response

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP-TRANSFER OF US$6,500,000.00

I am Engr Morris Ali,a Director in the Project and Planning department of
the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), I head a seven man Tenders
Board Committee in charge of contract award and Payment approvals.
I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to
handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a
huge sum of money to a foreign account.

There were series of contracts executed by a consortium of Multinationals in
the power industry in favour of the (NEPA) among which were;
1) The expansion of Power line network within Nigeria for power
distribution.
2) Contract for Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of various Gas Turbines in the
country.

The original value of of these contracts were deliberately over invoiced in
the sum of Six million, Five Hundred Thousand UnitedStates Dollar
(US$6.500,000.00) which has recently been approved and now ready to be
transferred.

However the companies that actually executed the aforementioned contract
have been fully paid and the projects officially commissioned. Consequently,
my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount into your
account for subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are
prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening
and/or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed in you at this juncture is enormous. In
return, we have agreed amongst ourselves to offer you 30% of the transferred
sum, 5% shall be set aside for any incidental expenses during the course of
this transaction, you will then be mandated to revert the balance to us in
due course.

You must however NOTE that this transaction is subject to the follwing terms
and conditions; our conviction of your transparent honesty and dilligence,
that you must accord this transaction with utmost confidentiality and
secrecy.Modalities have been worked out at the highest levelsof the Ministry
of Finance, Central Bank of Nigeria and the Presidential Task Force on
Contract Payment for the immediate remittance of the funds within 10 -14
working days subject to your satisfaction of the above terms.

Our assurance is that your role shall be totally risk free. To accord this
transaction the legality it deserves, and for mutual security of funds, the
whole procedures shall be legally processed with your name or any company
you may nominate as the bona fide final beneficiary.

Once more, I want you to understand that having put in over 25years in the
Civil Service of my country, I am very much averse to having my image and
career dented. This matter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy
and urgency. Kindly expedite immediate action as we are well behind schedule
to enable us include this transfer in the Final batch of the 2005 fiscal
year contract payments.

Please if this request interest you reply me through this forwarded email
address :(moali1234@yahoo.co.uk)


Waiting for you urgent response.
Best Regards
Engr Morris Ali.

 

Anti-fraud resources: