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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: "EAMON JONES" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <joneseamon1@yahoo.cn>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:09:41 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE

FROM THE DESK OF: EAMON JONES

I am Eamon Jones. (Managing Partner) Barrister, advocate, Solicitor of Gillian Radford & Co
Law Firm located in London UK. Africa-Irish Born, Born January 2, 1960; admitted, 1984. Education: LL.B, Phd.1979 University of Reading Practice Areas: Business Law Company; Commercial; Employment; Family Law; Intellectual Property; Real Estate; Wills, Trusts and Tax. I have a legitimate contract job offer for you; I want to know if you will like to assist me invest in your country and get rewarded financially without leaving or affecting your present job?

I represent Mr. Denis Maillet a business Tycoon who died alongside his wife Karen Domingue Maillet and the 14 Months old baby Robert Maillet on the Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998. Before his death, he was having a closing balance of £55,500,000.00 (Fifty five million five hundred thousand British Pounds) with Unity Trust Bank plc here in the UK. All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless hence I therefore made further investigations and discovered that (Mr. Denis Maillet) did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, including his bank deposit paperwork in the financial Institution where funds were deposited. The deposited funds have been floating as unclaimed since 2000 in the bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones.

According to the British Law, the money will revert to the ownership of the British government if nobody applies to claim the fund. To avoid this money being sent to the British treasury as unclaimed funds, I have decided to seek your assistance to have you stand as his next of kin so that the said fund (£55.5M) would be released in your name as the next of kin and paid into your account before I come over to meet you for sharing. All documents and proof that will have you claim this fund without stress will be forwarded to you upon your response to this mail. More so, I want to inform you that I have unanimously agreed to offer you 30% of the sum for the assistance and role you are going to play in this transaction, 20% will be given to charity organizations while the remaining will be my share. As a Christian, I cannot stand and see this money being sent to the British treasury while the poor suffer. I plan on investing my own share in Real Estate.

Trust me; this is once in a life time opportunity I bet you can't afford to miss. If you prefer to be re-contacted for more express information, write back promptly while I look forward to it. I expect your correspondence as my response with more information on this profiting offer will be swift.

Kindly get back to me with the below required info to enable us proceed.

(1) Your full names & Contact address
(2) Home, Office, and cell phone number
(3) Occupation

I await your response.

Sincerely,


Barrister Eamon Jones




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