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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: "MUSA EYADEM" <musa_eyadem@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 03:29:33 +0100
Subject: ASSISTANCE

Dearest, I want to use this opportunity to introduce my self to you. I am the son of Mr CHARLES EYADEM, from Sierra Leone. My father is the formal Director of Gold and Diamond Resources of Sierra Leone, he was killed by rebels in my country. Before my father died, he succeeded by depositing a trunk box contain 28 Millions Dollars in one of the Security company here in C?d?Ivoire, he declare the consignment as family treasure and African Art for security reason. Now I have this fund to invest in your country as the next of kin, I need your assistance because I can't handle the money properly based on my age and I need someone like you who has experience in business so that the money will be invest on profitable investment, I want you to show your interest immediately you received this message by contacting me for this legal transaction. After the successful transfer of this fund into your account, you will take 20% of the total amount of the mon!
ey and 5% will be out for any expenses during the preparation of the transferring of this fund and 85% will be for me and will be manage by you in my behalf in your country. After the money have been in your country, I will do my travelling documents to meet you, to continue my education. This transaction is 100% risk free. So contact me immediately through this email address : ( <mailto:musa_2eyadem@yahoo.com>musa_eyadem <mailto:musa_eyadem@latinmail.com>@latinmail.com) and also forward me your full name and address and your telephone numbers which I will use to submit to the security company for the release of the consignment. Due to my age, that is why I need your assistance . As soon as the consignment release from the security company, the fund will be transferring through bank or we make a good arrangement with a diplomat to ship the consignment directly to your doorstep in your country. I need your urgent respo!
nse towards this matter. Thanks and remain bless. My phone number
is 00225 05 28 95 17 MUSA EYADEM.




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