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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: "Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrs.ingabritt0178@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 19:58:38 +0430
Subject: UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES!

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor=#FFFFFF leftmargin=5 topmargin=5 rightmargin=5 bottommargin=5>
<FONT size=2 color=#000000 face="Arial">
<DIV>
<B>Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES Internal Audit,Monitoring,Consulting And Investigations Division From: Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius.&nbsp; </B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B> </B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>Attn: beneficiary</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>&nbsp;</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>The United Nation was at the federal Republic of Nigeria today.&nbsp; On international&nbsp; transaction inspection program.</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>&nbsp;</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>We discovered your name as one of the beneficiary of US$5000 000.00. and the US$5M is ready for you now.</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>&nbsp;</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>I want to know if you have received your payment, because your file is still showing not yet paid.</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>&nbsp;</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>Respond to me now so that i will help you resolve this before returning back to Sweden, we are here to help beneficiaries, because there are a lot of impostors in Nigeria, so let me know the position of your payment , so that United Nation will look into it.</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>&nbsp;</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>Have a wonderful day.</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>&nbsp;</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>Sincerely</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>&nbsp;</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>Sincerely yours,</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>Mrs.Inga-Britt Ahlenius</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>United Nations Under-Secretary-</B></DIV>
<DIV>
<B>General for Internal Oversight.</B></DIV>
</FONT>
</BODY></HTML>

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