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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: S ROBERT H <roberthen@rogers.com>
Reply-To: sroberthens@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 02:13:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: HELLO FROM Sergeant Robert Henshaw States Soldier IN IRAQ...



Greetings Recipient,
My name is Sergeant Robert Henshaw a United States Soldier presently in Iraq with the safe keeping squad. on the 28th of November, 2009 we received an emergency call disclosing some locations and hide out of the Al Qaeda and Ayman al-Zawahiri forces. I along side with 3 soldiers proceeded to the location in Bagdad Iraq and as we commenced we had a shoot out with the terrorists but they finally escaped but as we searched the building, we discovered an unusual bulge in a cellar, which I presumed to be storage room and as I proceeded to have a closer look at it, I kicked a metal covering and found several metal boxes (6 in number) piled on top each other and locked with a padlock.

On forcing the boxes open, we discovered several armored weapons including bullets. One of the boxes was filled with hard drugs(heroine) and two to my amazement was filled with money. On discovery of this money, I and the soldiers for close to 3 hours counted the bundles of the currencies which amounted to about $17.5M.I believe however that all these belongs to the Al Qaeda and Ayman al-Zawahiri forces, and because of this reason, I instructed the soldiers with me to handover all the boxes containing the drugs and amours to our superiors in the US army and agreed to keep the funds to ourselves, so as to help establish ourselves when we return from Iraq and to also donate some to charity all over the world. Presently, we have the money hidden in a safe and untraceable location only known to us.

Why I am explaining all our findings to you is to seek for your assistance and immense contribution to the actualization of our dream of getting these funds out from here. We are in desperate need of a reliable and trustworthy person who will receive, secure and protect these boxes containing the money for us until our assignment ends here. Since Iraq is getting unsafe and more dangerous everyday, we cannot afford to leave these boxes here in Iraq for any reason and knowing fully well that these were funds used in sponsoring terrorist attacks on our innocent citizens. We have no idea what could happen next as everything remains inconclusive at this point. This is a true story of what we came across here in Iraq. I intend to include some pictures I took here and my ID's issued by the US army and government for you to know better whom you are dealing with but I will include that in my next email to you. I assure and promise to give you 20% of this fund
before sharing with the other 3 soldiers when we leave this place. However, you are free to negotiate on what you wish to have as your percentage in this deal. Please assure me of your keeping this top most secret so that my job would not be jeopardized.

For security reasons Please reply to my private Email(sroberthens@gmail.com)
My Sincere Regards,
Sergeant Robert Henshaw..

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