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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: Morris mbaka <morris_mbaka@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 13:23:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FRAM MORRIS MBAKA


From: Morris Mbaka


My name is Morris Mbaka I am a staff of Banque
Atlantique here in Abidjan-Cote D'IVoire.I am writing to you following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
$8 million United States Dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his
life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261
which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.

You shall read more about the crash on visiting this website.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html


Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because the Bank cannot release the funds unless somebody applies for it as next
of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines.

Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin
being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to do business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety
keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.

We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as
foreign partner, while the ballance will be for me and my colleagues.

Iwill visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account.

Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this transaction.

Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.
As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.

Please note that all necessary arrangement for the
smooth release of these funds to you has been finalised.

We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.

Please in your response include your telephone number
so that i can give you a call to explain better.

Best regards

Morris Mbaka

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME






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