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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: teddywilliamschamber@07168.cn
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:40:15 +0800
Subject: Good Day

Madam Rita Osborne.
42 Dryden Street,
Leicester, L15,
England.

As you read this, i don't want you to feel sorry for me because i believe
everyone will die someday. Please do not be surprise the way i got your
contact, its obvious that this proposal will come to you as a big surprise.
This is because we have not met you before but i am inspired to send you
this email, my Name is Rita Osborne suffering from cancerous ailment.
I am married to Sir Williams Osborne an Englishman who is dead. My husband
was into private practice all his life before his death. we live together
as husband and wife which lasted for three decades without a child. My
husband died after a protracted illness, My husband and I made a vow to
uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged individuals as he had
passion for persons who can not help themselves due to physical disability
or financial predicament.

I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from this relationship,
which never came, when my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of
Ten Million Pounds(£ 10,000,000.00 Million Great Britain Pound Sterlings)
which were derived from his vast estates and investment in capital market
with his bank here in UK. Presently, this money is still with the Bank.
Recently, my Doctor told me that i have limited days to live due to the
cancerous problems i am suffering from.

Though what bothers me most is the stroke that i have in addition to the
cancer. With this hard reality that has befallen my family, and me i have
decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which comes
from my husbands effort to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans,
destitute, the down-trodden, physically challenged children, barren-women
and persons who prove to be genuinely handicapped financially.

I took this decision because i do not have any child that will inherit this
money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I
do not want my husband hard earned money to be misused or invested into ill
perceived ventures. I do not want this money to be misused hence the reason
for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence i know where i
am going. I do not need any telephone communication in this regard due to my
deteriorating health and because of the presence of my husband relatives
around me, i do not want them to know about this development.


Contact my lawyer with this specified email address

Barrister Teddy Williams (ESQ)

E-mail: teddywilliamschamber@07168.cn

Tell him that I have WILLED £10,000,000 to you by quoting my personal
reference number Law/chamber/solicitors/rt/osb/WILL/9834520012 and I have
also notified him that I am WILLING that amount to you for a specific and
good work.


Remain blessed.
Your Sister,
Madam Rita Osborne

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