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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: "Dr Joe Hanley" <drjoe_00@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 06:24:28 -0800
Subject: Re: Is Just For Both Of Us

Hello Flavia,

Thank you for the mail, i am only trying to prove to you that you must have trust in anything you want to do with anyone before doing it.

I told you from the first time that this deal can never put us in trouble and it has no risk because i have all the information about this fund that was deposited in my bank and with the help of an attorney, i know all is well.

The attachment bollow is a copy of the cerfiticate Of deposit to this fund, it was issued to our late client when he made this deposit with our bank. Keep it for your records and send me the informations i required to enable us start with this deal immediately without any delay.

Thank you once again.

Dr. Joe

 


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