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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: "joy omma" <joyomma2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ssmbh2001@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:24:32 -0800
Subject: Reply asap


Attention Dear,
May name is Miss Joy Omma , I'm 20 Years old from Sudan. My father isMr Daa
Omma we both lived here in Lagos Nigeria. I'm the senior and the most
Elderly Dauther of Mr Daa Omma who was involved in the 11th Sept.2001
Terrorist attack in America.

Sir, It happened that after the death of my father, we the family of Omma
have been having problem with my uncles who bent on taking share of the
money my father deposited in the lions bank plc.[A/C NO 3461071392] The
recent case was on sunday 21 january 2007 when three of my uncles came and
beat me up with my little ones saying that I should go and marry and leave
the house and my mum could not do anything cos she is old[68yrs now]. I
came across email from emails Diary Book as I was going through it.

My purpose of sending this e-mail to you is to ask you to assist us by
providing your postal address so that we can use it to secure the
certificate of registration of this fund from the probate court.

we are going to present you as our beneficiary so that my uncles will not
know that we have transfer the moeny out since the money will be transferred
by ATM CARD ok.The bank manager is on our side as he adviced us to look for
someone who could help us and take care of the money as he will release it
on the name of the person we present ok.

My father was into Import and Export of finished Goods here in Nigeria
before his untimely death on 9/11 attack. He has an account with Lions Bank
of Nigeria Plc with the account number 3461071392 under account name Daa
Omma Import and Export Ltd. He has 7.8 Million Pounds in the Foreign Deposit
account with the above named Bank.

Therefore I'm begging to provide us with your postal address so we can
secure the certificate of registration of the fund from the office of the
probate court and we will take the copy of certificate to the bank so that
the Lion Bank can release the 7.8 Million Pounds to us by means of ATM
INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT CARD. No ACCOUNT INFORMATION IS NEEDED ok I'm
willing to go into any business relationship with you by investing the money
in your Company. Please Dear, I should need an urgent reply back via my
email address You can also email me via bbeegood@mail.ru
Thanks and may God bless you.
Miss Joy Omma
For the Family Daa Omma Ltd

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