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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: David Obinna <ddvv22@msn.com>
Reply-To: <obiorah001@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:41:31 +0000
Subject: Good day,



Good day,



Is me Mr.David Obinna From Nigeria. I most let you know about this, this morning I received mail from a man called Mr.Andrew Mera. From London asking me to stop the transferring of the $2,000.000. TWO MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS to you. He also promises to offer me sum amount of money in advance so that I can transfer the fund to him but I said no that you are the right person to receive the $2,000.000 and that I have promise you that I will never let you down.



Please in other for us to believe that you are still interested to receive the fund you must call us immediately or email us so that we can tell you more about this, fail to contact us then we shall transfer the fund to Mr. Andrew Mera. To Contact us dial +234-803-3449089 email us on ( obiorah001@hotmail.com )



Wait to hear from you,

Mr. David Obinna.



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