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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: "Tony Boateng" <boateng_002@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:48:15 -0700
Subject: GREETINGS FROM BOATENG.

>From Tony Boateng.
Tel:+233 208216645


Greetings to you,
Before I introduce my self, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it with seriousness. This letter must come to you as a big suprise, but I believe it is only one day that people meet and become great friends and business partners.

My name is Tony Boateng, the present branch manager of a bank here in Ghana. I write you this proposal in good fait,believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you. Like I said,I have a transaction that will benefit both of us, as your assistance is reqired as a foreigner.
I use to head the accounts department in my bank head office, but last december I was asked to take the position of a manager of our branch in kumasi who passed on. So that was how I became the present manager and discovered a fortune. As I resumed duty, I discovered an account with total sum of $12,500,000 million that has not been operated for the past four years.
>From my investigations I found out that this account belongs to one late Mr. Morris Thompson an American great industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31,2000 including his wife and only daughter.You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site which I got during my investigation;http://www.cnn.com/2000/us/02/01/alaska.airlines.list and http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mthompson.html
The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my bank and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it,the account has no beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring of the account since then and no body has come forward to ask about the money as next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson,meaning that no one is aware of the account.I cannot directly take out this money without the help of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance to claim the funds and share it with me. As a manager of my bank branch, I have the power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I shall give you.
I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to the account,so that my bank headquarters will release the funds to you. There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
If you accept to work with me,I want you to state how you wish us to share the funds in percentage,so that both parties will be satisfied.Contact me as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work together,so we can go over the details.Thanking you in advance and may God bless you. Please, treat with utmost confidenciality.I wait your urgent response.

Regards

Mr. Tony Boateng.






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