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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: "ADV. Henry Ngcobo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ngcobo_henry@yahoo.se>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:09:02 -0700
Subject: GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU

ADV. Henry Ngcobo
FOW ATTORNEYS
31 Arterial Road West, Oriel,
Santon Johannesburg South Africa
Tel: +27-78-536-5664
Email: ngcobo_henry@yahoo.se

Good Day
i am ADV.Henry Ngcobo from FOW ATTORNEYS SOUTH AFRICA i am attorney in charge of legal
department of FOW SECURITY AND PROJECTS in Johannesburg south Africa. a company based in
taking care of investors assets and management in south Africa.

Yesterday i find out that one of the boxes deposited in this company contains money and the depositor is
dead, the amount containing in the box according to the depository agreement between this company
and the depositor is US$13.5 Million dollars.

Now i have concluded a smooth arrangement to move this money out of this company but i cannot do it
completely without presenting a foreigner as the next of kin/business partner of the dead depositor, on
the depository agreement the depositor mentioned that the money in question belong to her business
partner oversea.

The only person in position to claim this money is anybody from outside South Africa that I can present to
the company as the partner of the former owner, i am ready to share this money with you 50/50 that is 50%
for you and 50% for me. Please get back to me as soon as possible so that i can give you more details,
we can get this money out to your account within 72hours.

Kindly reply with your contact details

Thanks and God bless you
ADV. Henry Ngcobo

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