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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: JAMES OLIVER <zm724dizos@testzimbra.com>
Reply-To: JAMESOLIVER <jamesoliver1_ng@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN DO IT.


Greetings,

I am asking for your assistance to claim this inheritance fund belonging to my late client (Name Withheld) before the bank will confiscate the funds. A foreign expatriate died of overdose on Friday the 15Th of February, 2008 after taking some of his usual drug "CASODEX" .This drug is used for cancer treatments because he has been a cancer patient for over 9 years. He had US$7,000,000 in his domiciliary account with an oil firm (NNPC) here in Africa. Since his death, the fund has been unclaimed because i have not been able to locate any of his relatives abroad, and now the oil firm and the government have been contacting me as his attorney here in Nigeria, and they are also threatening to confiscate the fund if i do not present someone as beneficiary.

Please, if you are interested, sincere and ready to assist me with this claim, do respond to this message so i can give you the detailed information on how to proceed on this inheritance claim. Thank you.

Sincerely,

James Oliver
Attorney at law (ESQ.)
jamesoliver1_ng@rocketmail.com

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