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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: manfredbenson10@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:17:07 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GREETINGS=20FROM=20Mr=2EManfred=20Benson=2E?=

GREETINGS FROM Mr.Manfred Benson.

REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT!

My name is Mr. Manfred Benson, I head a Seven-man Tenders Board Committee
in charge of contracts Award, Vetting, Evaluating and payments. I am presently
an accountant with the South Africa Mining Corporation.

I am contacting you for an Urgent business proposal (please my apologies
for reaching you through this manner). The purpose of this letter to you
is to simply ask your hand in partnership towards the transfer of funds
to the tune of US$41,500M equivalent(Forty-One Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars), into a foreign account that you will provide.

The funds are ready and with your unalloyed cooperation the source of the
funds will be made genuine and legitimate, then the transfer is a 100% hitch-free,
timely and totally legitimate too. Needless to say, you don't have entertain
any fear as I am quite conversant with all laws governing money transfer
or money laundering of any sort.

We have designed this transaction in such a way that we shall be successful
and its proceed, we shall enjoy with absolute peace of mind even after the
successful completion of it all. If you follow my instruction accordingly
and promptly, this transaction will be completed in at the most 10-14 banking
days from the receipt of what I will require of you.

At this time I can not devulge further information regarding this proposal
until there exists an understanding and trust between us for security reasons.
But after receiving this mail and have perused through it and you are interested,
If this proposal meet your intrerest, we have decided to give you a negotiable
percentage from the entire sum, hoping that it will be satisfactory. Please
send along your response the following:

-Confidential/Private Tel and Fax number.
-Contact name and address.

Thank you for your much anticipated urgent response.

Respectfully,

Mr. Manfred Benson




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