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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: MADAME Christine Bernardo <clayton.ballard.mccoy@gmail.com>
Reply-To: christin_bernard65@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 19:35:33 +0000
Subject:

Hello Dear,
Really you don't know me very well and i know you do get this kind of
message all the time but, after consulting your profile, I feel like
meeting with you. I am MADAME Christine Bernardo a Filipinos as you know
already and a widow since on the 15th of May 2006. I was working with the
high curt of Philippines before this day and i am no more working. I want
to confide in you to go out of Philippines for my future investment. Please
bear with me as this world is full of wicked people and Internet also but I
put my faith in God as I have no other choice but to take the risk. I
inherited from my late husband the sum of 12.000.000 American dollars
(twelve million American dollars). This money, I hid it in a metallic box
and deposited it with a company of finance and safety here in Philippines.
I am in Philippines at this moment.

But do to my childlessness, the brothers of my late husband has taken
everything from me up to the joint bank account with the Equity bank here
in Manila. So, I insisted that the company should remove the box from here
to avoid trace and they used their diplomatic means to send my box out of
Philippines to the head office of their company in Abidjan
Ivory Coast. This box was deposited as family valuables, This is why I
decided to seek a trust worthy person outside Philippines who will help me
to withdraw this trunk box from the company before it's too late and also
for me to go out of Philippine for my future investment. Please I ask you
to consider my situation as a widow and come to my aide today it is very
urgent.
Thank you and God bless you
MADAME Christine Bernardo

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