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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: "Mark Konna." <gen.legall@indiatimes.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:09:34 +0100
Subject: From Konna.

Attn :Sir/Madam ,

I am Barrister Mark Konna, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to Mr.GREEN NAPPI, prominent citizen from your country who worked with shell development company,Cotonou, Hereinafter referred to as my client.

In the year 2000, my client, his wife And their three children were involved in a plane crash{Kenya air ways} Since then I have been expecting any member of his immidiate family to come up or ask for his belonging and but none came.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace any member of his family by myself hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the money in a consignment{crate}and property left behind by my late client before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the security and finance company where the deceased{{my late client}had in a CRATE (15.5 million )dollars.The security and finance company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the consignment {Crate}confisicated within the next ten official working days. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating his relatives for over 3 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the consignment{fund}can be released to you and then you and i can share the money.

As regards the above,50% to me and 50% to you. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we are to make. Moreover,I am making every necessary arrangement to cause the holding firm to move the consignment to your country or any nearby country for our easy collection once we certify them with the requirements. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me by my email to enable us discuss further.

Best regards,

Barrister Mark.



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