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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.DONALD SMITH" <"www."@song.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "MR.DONALD SMITH" <cardatm586@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:41:47 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Contact ATM Payment Office


Contact ATM Payment Office

Good Day,I have deposited the check to the ATM OFFICE. All you have to do is
to contact them at: (cardatm586@gmail.com) they will give you direction on how
you will be receiving your ATM card daily. My agreement with them is $20,000
daily until the whole of US$4.8Million is withdraw complete.

You are not expected to pay for the delivery fee or stamp duty fee or any
certificate fee because all the fee is already deducted from the funds once the
remittance is done. The only fee you will send to them before the delivery is
activation fee which i did not know the amount.when you contact the ATM
office, try to ask them how much is activation fee.

Email them with your full address, the contact person is Dr.John Brown, this is
there phone number;+229-98206775

Thank you.
MR.DONALD SMITH

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