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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: "anthony morola" <anthony_morola01@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:18:34 +0200
Subject: PLEADING FOR TRANSFER ASSISTANCE

FROM:MR ANTHONY MOROLA
1244 EAST LONDON CAFE
DOORNFORTEEN-JOHANNESBOURG
SOUTH AFRICA

ATTN:SIR,

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

Good day. My name is MR ANTHONY MOROLA The eldest son of DR JAMES MOROLA
of Zimbabwe. You might be surprised as to where I got your contact address
from; I got it from the International Subscribers list of yahoo Webpage
when I was searching for credible person that can offer me an assistance to
transfer some money overseas and your name was amoung the list
seen, after some prayers i descided to Pick on your name and your name was
choosen which I wouldn't know why it should be you except God knows why.

During the current war against commercial farmers in Zimbabwe from the
support of our PRESIDENT. ROBERT MUGABE, to claim all the white owned farms
in the country, all the white farmers were ordered to surrender all their
farms to his party members and his followers.
My father was one of the best farmers in our country and because he did not
support Mugabe’s idea, mugabe’s supporters invaded my father’s farm, killed
my father, made way with a lot of items from my father’s farm and burnt
everything else. After my father’s death, when I was going through his
files, I found out that there is an amount of money which he deposited in a
private security company in Johannesburg, South Africa, as if he knew what
was going to happen in the future. My mother and I,together with my younger
sister decided to move out of Zimbabwe to South Africa. The amount deposited
into the Security Company is US$20.M (TWENTY MILLION
UNITED STATES DOLLARS).
I have now decided to contact an overseas person/firm, who will assist me to
move this money out of South Africa because we are asylum seekers here in
South Africa, and the law here does not permit us to exercise financial
rights. If you consider this proposal, we have agreed to give you the total
sum of 30% for assisting us to move this money to your country and 10% is
mapped out for the expenses that may be incurred during this transaction and
60% will
be for me and my family to invest in you country. I will like you to furnish
me with your personal
details, phone number for easy communication. You can contact me by e-mail.
And modalities on how this transaction will be done shall be revealed to you
once we establish trust between ourselves. Note: This transaction is 100%
risk free and is absolutely confidential.
Thanks and God Bless.

MR ANTHONY MOROLA
For the famliy

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