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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: lottolntuk@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:04:29 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Final=20Notice=21?=

INTERNATIONAL LOTTO BV
LONDON-UK
RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION / PROCESSMENT ADVICE:
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 2nd March, 2005
of
winners of the SCIENTIFIC GAME PROMO LOTTERY; THE UNITED KINGDOMS/INTERNATIONAL,PROGRAMS
held on 1st Jan., 2005. Your email address attached to ticket number 023-56678230954,with
serial number 5073-11 drew the lucky numbers 7-14-21-42-49-59,batch number
6858/NL and consequently won the lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore
been approved of a lump sum pay out of $1,500.000.00 (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) is credited to file LOTTERY REF NO. SGIL/763276/03.

This is from total prize money of $20,000,000.00 shared among the seventeen
international winners in 1st-3rd categories.All participants were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn form 25,000 company email addresses
and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia,New Zealand, America,Europe,North
America and Asia as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted
annually.CONGRATULATIONS!Your fund is now in custody of a financial Security
company insured in your FILE REFERENCE. Due to the mix up of some numbers
and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until
your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account.This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous
acts by participants of this program. This lottery program was promoted
by our group of philanthropist headed by the netherland government.We hope
with a part of you prize, you
will participate in our end of year high stakes $10,000,000 million International
Lottery.To begin your claim, please contact your file/claim officer:

Best Regards

Rose WILLIAMS (Mrs.)

OR OUR FIDUCIAL AGENT, MR MICHAEL BROWN ON EMAIL[ coys@myway.com ] Please
be aware that your Paying Authority will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory
Report, Verifications and validation provided by our processing Agent; that
would be designated to your file. For due processment and remittance of
your winning prize to your designated account of your choice.Remember,all
prize money must be claimed not later than 1st April, 2005.After this date,all
funds will be returned as unclaimed.NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary
delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch
numbers in every one of your correspondences with your agent.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address,do inform your claims
agent as soon as possible.Congratulations once again from our team of staff
and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 17 is AUTOMATICALY DISQUALIFIED.



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