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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: "MR. YEBOAH JEREMY" <mrjeremyyeboah10@att.net>
Reply-To: <mrjeremyyeboah@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:43:44 -0000
Subject: CAN YOU BE OUR REPRESENTATIVE?

Good Day,

First and foremost, how are you and your family? Hope Good.
This is to inform you that we are into import and export of African Wood, crafts and Gold worldwide. Our company is base in Accra the Capital City of Ghana Republic in West Africa.

We have customers from all over the world, who buy Gold, woods and Crafts from us. We are asking you to be our representative in receiving payment from our customers on our behalf in your Continent Asia, especially in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan.

That is, whenever we are expecting payment from our customers or associates in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, we will ask you to help us receive the payment and consequently, give you instructions on where the fund will be channeled to later.

The reason for this is not far-fetched. The Ghana Republic Government always buy off the foreign currencies in which these goods are sold and give us exchange rate far below our market price hence we want you to be our representative in your country.

Whenever we are expecting payment from our customers, the payment will be made through you to us, and we will give you instructions on how you can be able to also help channel this fund to our associates abroad that ship goods and services to us.

For each payment made through you to us, you will be entitled to a 10% of the total amount. You are mostly required to receive payment from our customers on our behalf in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan. You have no risk to bear and no money to spend. All taxes by the Govt. of your country are to be deducted from any amount you receive before disbursement.

Your full name, Phone number and contact address will be forwarded to all our customers in your region once you indicate your willingness to work with us so as to enable them reach you and make arrangement to make payment to you.

You have to send to us your full name, address, phone number and email address that we can send to our customer in your region in case they want to pay by cashier cheque.

Please if this transaction is accepted by you, kindly reply me in my most confidential email address: jeremyyeboah@live.com

Regards,

Mr. Jeremy Yeboah

Operation Department

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