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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: "Jack Tomson" <jacktomson5@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:56:28 -0600
Subject: KINDEST ATTENTION

EMAIL jacktomson10@yahoo.com



Hi,

I am JACK TOMSON, A personal assistant to the late Mrs Stella Obasanjo
(Nigeria's first lady) who died in Spain while undergoing a plastic
surgery.
I am taking a bold and urgent step and needs an assistance from you.
First i got your contact in my desparate search for a reliable person to lay
my trust on in this venture.

Before the untimely death of the first lady, i was her closest confidant. I
know her secrets and she had the trust on me as i was never a sell out to
her for once.
she was nursing the ambition of a senatorial seat for Edo Central Zone (her
birth place) come 2007. and based on this, we were preparing our strategies
financially b/cos the first lady wanted to buy over even the camp of her
"would be opponents".

We deposited a sum of $15m (fifteen million dollars) to a finance security
company through the office of the first lady as money for the payment of a
foreign contractor who supplied furniture to the Govt. house.
This money was meant to be used in by Dec 1st for our party's national
convention to buy over majority of the delegates, but now the first lady is
no more and this money will be trapped in the security company if no
foreigner comes to claim it before Dec 1st as was told them when we were
depositing the money and also contained in the deposit documents.

What i need from you now is to assist me to pull out this money from the
security company by applying as the contractor who executed the contract of
furniture supply. this money will be paid to you as i have all the relevant
documents that will needed to claim this money.

You may not necesarily need to come here in person to claim this money, you
can apply from your country and submit an account into where this money will
be paid into any where you may wish.
We will share this money at a ratio which will discuss later on. i will give
you other vital informations concerning this transaction as soon as i hear
from you.
Remember to keep this piece of information confidential until we have
succeeded.

Thank You.

JACK TOMSON





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