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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: "Laura Johnson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <laurajohnson401@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:00:55 -0600
Subject: How Trustworthy Are You?

Hello,

I am very much interested to enter into a mutual business relationship with you and I believe you will be interested.

My name is Laura Johnson, I am 21 years old girl and the only child of Late Mr. David Johnson from United States of America. My Late father, Mr. David Johnson is an Oil Contractor with Texaco Oil Company here in London, My father Mr. David Johnson, died in Car Accident with My Mother Mrs. Joyce Johnson in 20th January 2007.

Between 2004 and 2006, Texaco and My Father`s Company extracted over 1.4 billion barrels of Oil from the Ecuadorian Amazon. In that contract which was executed by My Father`s Company, Texaco designed, built and supervise all exploration, while My Father`s Company did the extraction and transportation.

During that time, an estimated 100 billion barrels of Oil was extracted which was far above what they used to get before in the Ecuadorian Amazon, almost double the amount which the Exxon Valdez gets. Texaco also systematically made a profit of trillions of BRITISH POUNDS after making their sales. Texaco conducted a limited cleanup through an agreement with the Ecuadorian government, though its effectiveness is being challenged. Meanwhile, several medical studies relate the devastating health impacts which caused widespread pollution due to the Oil exploration and extraction on the communities living near the areas operated by Texaco. But they have compensated them dully and accordingly.

So, the Texaco director has ordered the payment of all outstanding debts being owed to their contractors which they informed me as the next of kin to my father to come and receive his contract payment of £37 Million Pounds Sterling £37,000,000.00 GBPS (37M GBPS) which the board of directors has been released and now ready to be paid into my bank account.

But the problem now is that they refused to pay the money into my account, because I am not to the age on the required as the next of kin to receive the money which is according to the Will of my father that before I will be in control of his wealth or any properties belong to him I must get to the age of 25 years old and right now I am 20 years old. I now seek for assistance from you to stand as a beneficiary to receive this fund into your bank account and all legal documentations will be carefully worked to make you the beneficiary to this fund £37,000,000.00 GBPS (37M GBPS).

Please I want you to help me invest this money in your country. My Mother's Brother is very wicked he want to collect my Late Father's Property from me. Please help me so that I will not lose this money. If you are not interested to help me please don't deceive me.

THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU.


Laura Johnson.

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