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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: Nita Negranza <nitanegranza@live.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:36:37 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: FROM NITA NEGRANZA


Dear ,
Greetings and Compliments of the day to you, I know that this letter may be a very big surprise to you, I came across your email contact from my personal search and I believe that you will be honest to me.  Well, let me first of all fully introduced myself to you in details. I am Nita Negranza, wife to late Muhammad Negranza, from Philippine who worked in Philippines Embassy in Ivory Coast as one of the Philippines foreign representatives in our embassy for nine years before his untimely death on the Month of 12th June 2007. We were married for 15 years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home due to the love i have for my late husband.  I am mailing from my hospital room/bed with tears on my face. I wish you can come down to see what i am passing through right here in Philippine, if you don’t mind let me tell you how you can locate me. The
name of the Hospital is Garcia Medical Centre (Address: 202 Mayapa Road , Barangay Mayapa Angeles City , Pampanga, Philippine).  But understand that i don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health condition and also i cannot chat with you because Msn and Yahoo messenger is not installed in my laptop that i am using here in the hospital and we are not allowed to use telephone in "post operation ward" and "intensive care unit ward" which this rule is similar in the big and teaching hospitals in your country also. If it is about internet services we are allowed to use mini radios, tapes and laptops only and if your laptop have WIFI it can catch the internet network services of the hospital which is the benefit that i am enjoying by communicating with you right now.  Before the death of my husband on the month of June 2007, where he was hospitalized he sincerely called me to his bed side and told me that he has the sum of $5
Million US Dollars (Five Million US Dollars) That he concealed in a metallic trunk box and deposited it in a SECURITY COMPANY in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) before he finally die which he highlighted me everything about the fund the way it was deposited with the Security Company.  According to my late husband explanations he said that he decleared the box as family valuables, leaving the impression of having gold and diamonds as content, his reasons was due to the fact that he was holding a political position then and because he have worked in Ivory Coast as one of the Philippines foreign representatives in our embassy there before he was returned back after some years ago to Philippines and does not want to leave any trace to be suspected.  He also used my name to Deposited the trunk box as a family valuables as his only wife as a next of kin, he explained further to me, that it was because of his position was why he was betrayed by his fellow business
associates and also advise me to seek for a foreign partner in any country of my choice where I will transfer this fund and use it for investment purposes such as Estate Management, Hotels, Petroleum Stations.  I want you to assist me to contact the security company for the release of the consignment/fund($5 Million US Dollars) to you in your country so that the shipment can take place immediately without further delay and also arrange my traveling documents for me to join you over there in your country for further treatment of my illness after the final receipt of the consignment to you in your country thereafter, but before then, i would want you to be aware that if it is successfully done, I will offer you with %30 percent of the total fund for your financial assistance.  So i want your re-affirmation that you are capable to help me transfer/ship this consignment as what you have to do after i have sent all the necessary details/documents, is
just for you to contact the security company after your re-affirmation about your capability to handle this transaction to me in your next email to find out from them what it will take to process and lift/ship the consignment to you in your country and remember that this should be strictly confidential between us for security purposes.  As soon as I receive your reply, I will send to you all the necessary documents, my pictures, international passport, medical certificate and also draft out the contact of the Security Company couples with the Authorization Certificates which my late husband used to deposit the truck box/fund that they give to me on the very day when the truck box/fund was deposited under their company to enable you call them and give them your designated address/country for the immediate shipment of the box to you as the Original-Beneficiary of this fund.  I want you to always pray for me because God work in mysterious ways. I await
to hear from you soonest. Yours Beloved Sister.Nita Negranza. 

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