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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: "DAVID RICH" <davidrich6@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: davidrich66@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 21:21:22 +0100
Subject: Please reply soon

FROM: DAVID RICH BAILA
DAKAR, SENEGAL
WEST AFRICA.
EMAIL:davidrich_baila@yahoo.com

Dear Beloved One.

Thank you for giving me your time;Please be patient and read my
email to you, this letter might come as a surprise to you,and you could be wondering where i got your contact.
I got your address through a personal search on the internet for someone relaible and trustworthy,so i decided to contact you for an assistant, which I do hope you will take your time to consider.
My name is DAVID RICH BAILA,am personal political adviser to former liberia president CHARLES TAYLOR,during his tenures in office as president Charles Taylor who left to nigeria for political assylum under president Olusegun Obasanjo, until pressure become unbearable from global world particularly the goverment of America and the newly elected president of liberia for Obasanjo to hand him over to liberia goverment and finally decided to escape to camerrom where he was arrested at border between nigeria and camerron named Boki and finally hand over to liberia democratic elected president for trial later end up in prison for interogation.
Now let me introduce to you the secrect behind these letter which iwould like you to keep the contents confidential between us, am the above name. CHARLES TAYLOR deposited the sum of us$12.5millon (twelve millon five hundred thousand united state dollar) in a security company in Amsterdam,Holland,before he left to Nigeria for asylum, as the beneficiary before he escaped to cameroon he deposited all the document with me and later arrested by Nigeria police.i tried to escaped to Dakar Senegal where am presently.
Am now seeking for your assistances to enable me take out the money from the security company, and i have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be set-aside for any expenses that maybe incurred in the course of this transaction and the remaining 65% will be for me to invest in any lucrative investment.
All I want you to do is to help me finish this transaction and at the same time to help me to invest some of my share of the money in a lucrative business in your country.
Please get back to me via my private email address(davidrich_baila@yahoo)
for better discussion or should incase you have any questions you would like to ask,please feel free to contact me any time via my email address.
Thanks and God bless as i will be looking forward to your swift and
positive response.
Regards,
MR.DAVID RICH BAILA


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