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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: ruthj jawad <ruthj1_jawad@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:50:06 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Let Me Know


Dear Pastor Robert Ised,

How do you mean? You think I want survive this illness, what is your plan and look if you don’t want to proceed kindly let me know because the two option either you obtain the document yourself or you quite so that I look for a trusted and willing person to handle this project.

You don’t expect the lawyer to work for you or obtain the required document for you without money is not done anywhere even in USA and here in my country if there you can use your own lawyer for it. The way you sounds you seems not to be trusted again.

Sister Ruth Jawalus.



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