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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: "Anayo" <njidnjid1@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:26:13 +0400
Subject: Anayo njid i am in Dubai u a e

How are you and your family?i hope and believed that all is well with you and your family.
I am Mr. ANAYO NJID a LIBERIA Nationality in East Africa , I am oblige to relate to you of about some (MONEY) we discovered it during this liberia rebel war and me and collegues Mr. Eze,
because we are the appointed leader under our chief captian of the growing once so we did not waste time hiding out this MONEY to a neighbouring country where we got a security vault, we gave this consignment to our wife to deposit it in the vault.Now we decided to quit from the job .
I and my collegues has had a meeting for one person among us to travelled out to look for a reliable person who will give us ideas on how to INVEST this MONEY or join us as partnership so we need your help to invest this money and amount is about $15.000.000 ( fifteen million dollars) So hoping hearing from you .
THANKS.
ANAYO NJID




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