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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: Europa Securities <europiantrust.sec@att.net>
Reply-To: europatrust@turk.tc
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 07:56:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re;Can I Trust You In This Deal?.



 





>From Office Of The Project Director
Europa Trust Security and diplomatic courier  Company  PLC London,
80 FORE STREET EDMONTON N18 2XH LONDON
Tel+44-70-4577-4951
Fax--+44-700-5964-681
 
Dear Friend,  
 
I am Mr. Frank Adams the Project Director Europa Trust Security and diplomatic courier  Company  PLC London, I seek your assistance for respect of a foreign customer that deposit  consignment  with  our company,code: XXMD-908-14-255-114, on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in the Siberia Airlines Tu-154 Crash.
 
Further enquiries visit the website below: //
www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=54591
 
Mr.Kamochkin Sergey is  from Denmark and a member VB/Research http://www.vbresearch.com of multinational business and privately owned proprietary deal intelligence before he died.
 
He deposited a consignmment here in our company and i have waited for long no one comes up to claim it for six years now.I  only need your assistance  to move the consignment before our company get  the funds/consignment Confiscated or declared unserviceable by our Company where this Huge deposits was for an investment reasons by the deceased.
 
 Please note that this will be done in a legal manner as I will try and obtain all the legal documents to back you up  in this deal as the next of kin ,This is a deal and we are to share in ratio of  50/50
 
 Please contact me more for details through my email ( europatrust@turk.tc ) if you are interested, send me an email so I can give you the full details also copy of  deposit certificate which is  in my possession right now.
 
I wait for your urgent response then i will give you my identification and the deposit certificate for your perusals.
 
Best regards,
 
 
Mr.Frank Adams
Project Director
Europa  Trust Security and diplomatic courier  Company Plc.
Tel--+44-7045774951
Fax--+44-700-5964-681
 

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