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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?Colinus=20Spencer?= <colinusspencer25@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: colinusspencer2004@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:46:19 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: colinusspencer2004@yahoo.com


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : colinusspencer25@yahoo.fr



- Please, I want you to read this mail carefully and consider my present need for assistance. My name is Mr.Colinus Spencer and I am the man who detained ex-president of Liberia , MR CHARLES TAYLOR, used in moving out money from Liberia to all part of the world. I moved out some amount of money worth $14.5m, which I put in a consignment coupled with a few Art materials with the help of an Ecomog solders to Abidjan,Cote d’Ivoire where I deposited the consignment in a prime security and finance company for safe keeping.Now, base on the political problem here in Africa, I decided to solicit for your assistance to help me secure and invest with the fund in any lucrative business of your choice in your country It’s after the claim that I will direct you how you will send some money to me from the consignment for me to process my travelling document to come over to your country for the investment.However, I will offer you 15% of the principal capital before investment and 10% of the net profit after investment which you are going to handle for me. My Private colinusspencer2004@yahoo


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