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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 .TONY BROWN" <mail@4good.info>
Reply-To: tonybrown2028@post.ro
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:38:08 -0400
Subject: FYA/FROM TONY BROWN

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.Tony Brown, a Banker with First City Monument Bank, here in
Nigeria. I am writing this letter to ask for your Support and co-operation
to carry out this business opportunity in my Department.We discovered an
abandoned sum of (USD10 Million) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers Late Engineer Daniel Worley who died in the Ikeja Bomb
blast of the 27th of January 2002 including his wife and two children.

Since his death, we have been expecting his Next-of-kin to come over and
put claims for his money as his heir since we cannot release the fund from
his account unless someone applies to claim as the heir apparent to the
deceased as indicated in our banking regulation. Unfortunately,neither
their family member nor distant relatives have shown up to claim the said
fund.

Upon this discovery, my colleagues and I, have agreed to make business with
you and release the total amount into your account as the heir to the fund
since no one came for it or discovered he maintained an account with our
bank,otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed
fund.

For clarity, we have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated
thus; 30% for you as foreign partner, 65% for me and the officials in my
department and 5% for the settlement of all local and foreign expenses
incurred during the course of this business. Upon the successful completion
of this transfer, my colleagues and I will come to your country and mind
our share. It is from our 65 % we intend to import Agricultural Machineries
into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To commence this
transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a
return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone & fax numbers,full
names & address to enable the process of this transaction in your favour
and to effect the necessary approvals before thetransfer can be made. look
forward to your earliest response through my
alternative email Address below: ( tonybrown2028@post.ro )

Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of
its nature. For confirmation of this story please refer to these sites:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/index2.html?/eng/2002/02/02.html

I look forward to receiving your prompt response.


Regards,

Tony Brown.



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