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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: ali_musa@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:34:42 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=20Need=20Your=20Assistance=2E?=

FROM:ALI MUSA.
18 BP 1699 ABIDJAN 18. SAN PEDRO. COTE D'IVOIRE.

I am the only son of EL HADJ DASUKI DAUDU XI and one of the executive directors
of DASUKI FRAMS/AGRO ALIED INDUSTRY. My father as you can observe from the
company's was in affiliation with the Federal republic Of Cote d' ivoire.

My late father deposited a sum of 10 million dollars in a security company
as family treasure and the security company does not know the content of
the BOX that was deposited in thire company.I will give you the details
of this transaction if you are willing to assist me in this.You will get
total of 10% PARSENT of the total money that is involved 5% parsent will
be marped out to offset all the expencies that will be incured during the
coures of this transaction.

I await your urgent reply.

Thanks

Yours faithfully,

Ali Musa.




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