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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: "Dora Spencer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fsa206@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:12:26 -0400
Subject: Are you truly in prison?clarify Urgently.

Dear Beneficiary,

Be kindly informed that your overdue funds have been scheduled to be
effected through the ATM Cash card since all attempts to pay you
through the bank transfer and other means have failed.

Your approved due funds shall be programmed into an ATM Cash card that
will be dispatched to your nominated address from where you will make
withdrawals on a daily basis and over-the-counter withdrawals of
approved large sums from designated financial institutions within your
city.

Be further informed that attempts had been made to contact you in the
past and this is the 3rd and perhaps the last email to you in respect
of this matter as we have received a power of attorney from one
Mr.Jeffrey Jones from USA, asking us to change the beneficiary to
himself as your relation,stating that you have been sentenced to life
imprisonment on account of your criminal activities.

But in order to avoid disbursing funds to wrong beneficiary based on
false information,we decided to write you once again to clarify if his
claim of your life imprisonment is true or not,knowing that you will
react to disprove Mr.Jones' assertion if you are not in confinement as
he claimed,knowing that failure to do so,will amount to confirmation
of his claim.And the approved funds shall then be processed and
released to him as your relation.

But if Mr Jones' claims are wrong,you should immediately contact Lord
Adair Turner of the Financial Services Authority(FSA) who is in-charge
of processing your payment and provide him with your personal
information to enable immediate conclusion of action on your payment
process.

Contact:Lord Adair Turner
Financial Services Authority (FSA).
E-mail: fsa206@aol.com

Kindly confirm as soon as you have established contact with the above.

Yours respectfully,

Dora Spencer.
E-mail(dspencer170@yahoo.com)






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