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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: Miss Vikky Savimbi <miss_savimbihoney@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:45:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Urgent


Dear Friend,
I got your contact from an email directory and decided to contact you for assistance. I am the daughter of Jonas Savimbi the rebel leader in Angola who was short dead on the 25th of
February, 2002, by the opposing Angolan Army.
.......PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS WEB PAGE FOR IT SAYS ALL.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1839000/1839252.stm>
Before the death of my father he had deposited the sum of $16,000,000.00(Sixteen million dollars)a Global Diplomatic Security Company in West Africa (Nigeria).All the legal documents for the deposit are with me which my father gave to me for safe keeping.After the death of my father I and my family fled to West Africa (Nigeria )where we are currently living.(In a protective custody ) And we have been trying to fly out of Africa but it has been difficult for us to get visas from Africa.
So we want you to help us make claims of this fund ($16m) in Nigeria as my family beneficiary and transfer the money to your account or any account of your choice before I and my family can get visas to fly down to your country so that we can share this money.My family have agreed to give you 40%, which would be ($6.4Million dollars) of this Money for your assistance, and 55% would be for us and the other 5% would be set aside for any expenses that we may incur during the course of this transaction. And part of our share of 87% would be invested in your country in any profitable business proposed by you.While a large part of our share will also be used to help charity organizations.

We have never met, but I want to trust you and please do not let us down when this fund finally gets into your account.And I want you to promise me that you will not run away with the money or sit on it.please send to me your direct telephone and your direct mobile number and your fax number.Please if you are interested; get to me through my email address to enable me feed you with more details and all necessary documentations.Please treat this as confidential


Best regards.
Miss Vikky Savimbi .


























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