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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: "Mr. Anthony" <osas_45@myway.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:15:00 -0800
Subject: Good morning

My dear friend,

Please, I want to introduce myself and this business
opportunity to you. My name is Mr. Anthony, I am an
accountant. I wish to know if we can work together. I would like you to
stand as the next of kin to our late client who made some deposits to my
bank.
He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now have an
open beneficiary mandate.
More over it appears you are related to him by the virtue of your names.

If you are interested you do let me know so that I can give you
comprehensive details on what we are to do. I urgently hope to get your
response as soon as possible. Upon hearing from you l will give you full
details of it.

All document will send to you and also our legal adviser will make the
change of ownership to your name to authenticate this transfer process.

Remain bless,

Mr. Anthony.










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