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

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Martins Akosa" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrmartinsakosa203@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:48:55 +0100
Subject: PLEASE, THIS TRANSACTION REQUIRES TOP CONFIDENTIALITY.

>From The Desk Of Mr Martins Akosa
Director Nigeria Project Management Board,
Subsidiary of NNP, Mobil oil, Shell D’Arcy Petroleum,
Nigeria Agip Oil Company, SNEPCO.
Address NNPC Towers, Central Business District,
Herbert Macaulay Way, P.M.B. 190, Garki, Abuja.
      
                                            Top Secret
Attention
 
 
I am Mr Martins Akosa, Director Nigeria project Board, I was newly appointed by the executive committee in charge of Nigeria  project executions and contract payment of local and international contractors, i was appointed to reposition unpaid contracts / inheritance payments both local and foreign contractors, I discovered a hidden truth during a random verifications conducted by me that you have not been paid a cent after several failed attempts to receive your funds from those who contacted you from both in and outside Nigeria and you have not visited to sign your sub-letted documents . The reason why you did not receive your funds was not an accident but a deliberate act by those who contacted you since they did not inform you properly because of their greed to extort your hard earned money, to worsen the situation, those people used different fabricated government documents for their illicit activities, none of those documents were registered with the Nigeria project boards and federal executive cou
 
1, I will present your data’s to the board as a fresh foreign contractor to claim sub-letted contract / inheritance sum of $15.6 million united states dollars under Mobil Oil.
 
2, I will use my position as the project manager to secure all the relevant Nigeria payment sub-contract/ inheritance documents hard original copies in your name or name of your company if you have any.
 
3, I am legally entitled for %10 percent commission of the total principal sum of $15.5 million dollars after the conclusion of this deal.
 
4, I will use my power here to secure all the relevant documents from all the concerned ministries and organization, due legal process to receive sub-contract/inheritance will be legally implemented but please don’t remember your past because it will keep you in negative mood over this new offer.
 
In furtherance, may I inform you that your past dealings with those syndicates never existed, no funds have ever been approved in your name, those crooks were using your name as foreigner to bid and secure contract/ inheritance allocations from different government establishments which they succeeded without given you a cent rather they will keep demanding series of fees from you until when you are tired of listening to them.
 
Finally, exonerate and delete the bad memories of the past now that I have contacted you and please stop further dealings with any of those people unless you want to continue patronizing them hence they will use many tricks to convince you so keep them at bare for now until after these transactions. I know Nigeria has bad reputation but not everybody here is corrupt, good people also exist here.kindly contact me with details via my direct E-mail: (mrmartinsakosa203@gmail.com)
 
NB- things will be done legally and according to the Nigeria sub-contract / inheritance law bit it has to be a secret between us, no other party should know about it because normally you are suppose to visit Nigeria in person to transact with government board yourself so promise me of confidentiality then I will clarify you as soon as I receive your response. I occupy a very sensitive position and would not like to lose my job prior to exposure of my communication with you.
I will not provide my phone number at the moment until I am sure you will keep this communication secret because of my sensitive position, I will provide you with my number once you promise to be secret and confidential.
 
Regards,
 
Mr Martins Akosa

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