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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "FEDERAL RESERVE BANK" <fundrelease@federalreserve.gov> (may be fake)
Reply-To: collinssmith@ufclearinghouse.com
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:23:34 -0700
Subject: FUND RELEASE

Attention,

This is to publicly inform you that the meeting held on the 14 Oct. 2005,
which considerably maintained the good relationships between United States
financial policy and other countries.

The Federal Reserve Bank of United State of America's board hereby release
all the foreign transferring money intercepted in our vault due to some
reasons with the past years.

>From the record of the intercepted fund, your details are on the first list
that has been authorized to release; you are thereby mandated to contact the
following Dept. of our Clearing House to affect the claim and final Clearance
of the fund to your account within 14 days.

Mr. Collins Smith.
Tel/fax: +1-509-275-6181, 1 509 563 2963
Email: collinssmith@ufclearinghouse.com

Thanks for your prompt co-operation,

Mr. Alan Greenspan.
President. FRB/ UFCH


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