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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: "Mohamed Mustaf" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mohamedmustafa00112@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 10:25:15 -0500
Subject: Business Offer

Dear Friend,

How are you today. I am Engr. Mohamed Mustafa, the chairperson of the Contract Award Committee of the OIL AND GAS Industry here in Malaysia. After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this business proposal that will benefit both of us.

We want you to assist us receive the sum of Ten Million, Six Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$10.6M) cash in your country, which we have arranged to move out of here to a safe place where we can have access to it and invest the money, the fund is currently at a security company. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to the ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries and was dully paid. The contract was executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract.

Now, we are left with the balance of US$10.6M as the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note that the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts hence this contact (that is why I contacted you).

We have agreed to share the money in the following percentages: 40 percent for you, 50 percent for us, and 10 percent for reimbursement of expenses we may incur during the shipment of the fund to you in your country.

If you are interest to fully co-operate with us to receive this fund from us and keep it safe till we come over to your country to share it. Then you should provide us with the below required information so that I will process the transaction and direct the security company to immediately ship the fund to you.

1) Your full Name
2) Your full contact address where this fund will be delivered to you.
3) Your private telephone numbers.
4) Nationality
5) Occupation
6) Age/Sex

Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction.

Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.

Best Regards.
Engr. Mohamed Mustafa.
Malaysia

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