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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: "barristernonso lawrence" <barristerlawrenc@sify.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:40:22 +0100
Subject: CONTACT THE OCEANIC BANK BENIN REPUBLIC IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR ATM SWIFT CARD


DEAR FRIEND,
How are you today together with your family i hope every
body is fine, you did not come down to my country here Benin
Republic to pick your money ($10.8million us dollars ) in a
Bank draft as we fixed and i did not heard from you since
that time as we
arranged then I went and deposited the Bank Draft with THE
OCEANIC BANK PLC OF BENIN REPUBLIC here in Benin
Republic because I travelled to saudi arabia for medical
check up i will not be back till next monthending.

I have arranged with the Bank to make your payment to you
with their new ATM MASTER CARD which you can use
to withdraw your money in any ATM machine around the globe
at the maximium rate of $185.00 us dollars (Onethousand &
Eight five US Dollars) per day.
You have to contact the OCEANIC BANK PLC OF BENIN REPUBLIC
with your full contact informations such as follows.

YOUR FULL NAME...............
YOUR HOME ADDRESS.............
YOUR COUNTRY........................
YOUR PHONE NUMBER..............
A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE...............

However, kindly contact the below person who is in
position to release your ATM MASTER CARD.
REV RAPH JOHN DIRECTOR,
ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT OCEANIC BANK PLC OF BENIN
REPUBLIC.
MOBILE, +229-93642655
EMAIL: (atmdepartmentbenin02@live.fr)
EMAIL: (atmdepartmentbeninrepublic@live.fr )


I have paid for the delivery, stamp and insurance
charges.The only Money that your are going to pay to them is
only ($185.00 us Dollars) which they will use
to reactivate your ATM MASTER CARD before sending it to you.
Try to contact them as soon as possible to enable them
quicken the processing of your ATM CARD . Do Let me know as
soon as you receive your ATM CARD.
Thanks
Barrister Nonso Lawrence.

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