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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: greg steve <gregsteve20@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 01:27:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: DETAILED MODALITIES


Dear Friend,

I got your email from the british chamber of comerce, when i was seaching for who to help me, below is the detail of the transaction.
I appreciate the fact that you took your time to go through my very lenghty proposal and deem it fit to at least consider coming in on this project. I bet you,you will never regret doing so.However the content of your response is well digested.

As I adequately explained in my proposal, you will not be commiting any crime by being nominated a beneficiary of a deposit whose original owner died intestate without mentioning a next of kin in the bio-data form he filled when opening the Deposit originally.I realise the necessity of confidence and trust as reposed on you and i as partners, being necessary for building the solidarity disposition to be maintained by us in the furtherance of the prompt realisation of our desire. In total recognition of this spirit, I guarantee to you, that your interest will not be brought to odiom by reason of this project. You can count absolutely on this as i will not let you down.

I want to be fully convinced, That you know what is expected of you in this regard and that you will not turn your back on me once the money is in your posession.Trust,honesty and dedicatedness are the main proponents that leads expressly to success in transaction of this nature.To this end I will want you to come up with any questions on areas you are not clear about so that we can mutually build our trust and honesty on each other. I advice that you give it some thought so that there will be no going back when we get started. I am saying this because, immediately I send a release order to the security company, they will immediately release the funds to you upon identification. This will only take a few days.Your total committment will be needed because you might have to sacrifice your time and money if necesary to come down to sign and claim the boxes in deposit with the security company or to get the boxes shipped to you.

As regards your position on this project being positive we will start by getting the needed documents in your name as the beneficiary. This, i will want you to furnish me with the informations below, to enable me commence.

FULL NAMES:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
TEL:
FAX (OPTIONAL):
OCCUPATION:

It is my intention that upon the recipt of the requested Information from you, i shall validate the claim, make a customary writing report, that you are the Beneficiary and it is by virtue of this, entitled to the release of the deposit with the security firm in your favour. This report will validate the bonafide of your claim and confirm you as the beneficiary and therefore entitled to an allocation of Control Approval number for the release of the boxes, by the security firm . All the security firm does after validation report is to issue the final Approval Order Number from the British cargo control Board as a bureaucratic satisfaction of beneficiary release procedure. In effect,once i validated a claim, the security firm is bound to approve same, this is why i have an unflinching confidence in the safety of our arrangement.The transaction will be 100% legal. From the foregoing, you are therefore able to appreciate why i have hammered on the absolute necessity of our
maintenance of confidentiality of the project and the transfer even after we have disbursed the money after arrival in your position.

Once again, thank you very much for your expressed willingness to assist in this project. I urgently wait for the requested information to enable me commence action here timely.
You can call me on my private telephone number below.

Best Regards,
Sincerely,
Greg Steve
Tel: +44 7040 112 660


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