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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Ali Hassan." <ali_hassan42@arabtop.net> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:24:03 +0400
Subject: READ AND REPLY

FROM: Mr.Ali Hassan
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
EMIRIATE BANK OF U.A.E.
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

With great pleasure I am writing this proposal on behalf of my partners.A member of our government trade delegation to your country gave your impeccable profile to me. Hence I have decided to seek your cooperation,due to the sensitivity of this transaction and my commitment as a civil servant.

I am Mr.Ali Hassan the manager Bills and Exchange under foreign remittance department of Emirate Bank International Dubai United Arab Emirates There is an account opened in this Bank in 1990 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is DR. H. PAUL JACOBI , a foreigner, Geologist byprofession and he died since 1999. In an air crash along with his wife Mrs. Patricia Jacobi on 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from the website below http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-99/11-02-99/d08ho174.htm

No other person know about this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved To me as
well that his company does not know anything about his account and the amount involved is (US$ 12.7)TwelveMillion seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local Bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign
account because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the
account is DR. H. PAUL JACOBI is a foreigner too.

Our constraint is to be able to source an honest and trustworthy individual,to whom we can remit these funds and act as trustee pending our visit, since our period of disengagement from the civil service is near.We are presently affected by the U.A.E. civil service code of conduct laws that prohibits civil servants from operating private foreign accounts. I have the authority of my partners in office to propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction, your share as compensation will be (40% )while my colleagues and I receives (50%)and the balance of (10%) for taxes and other miscellaneous expenses.

This transaction is 100% risk free provided you treat it with utmost
secrecy and confidentiality. Furthermore, your area of specialization is not ahindrance to the successful execution of this transaction.
Kindly contact me with this email address to indicate your willingness

in assisting us.
Thank you and God Bless,
My sincere Regards
Mr.Ali Hassan.



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