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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: "wanda cross" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wandacross111@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:52:46 +0100
Subject: Kindly read and get back to me

I am Ms Wanda Cross, a banker who works with a bank here in London. I am the account officer to a foreigner who is a Citizen of your Country,he
worked for the Petrochemical Support Services Company of London United Kingdom.

My client was involved motor accident on the 16th of January, 2004 and later
that same day he died. Since then I have made several inquiries to your country's
Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives, but this has proved unsuccessful.
I have also visited your Country in search of his relatives early this year but still
could not locate his relations. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided
to contact you today privately as a total stranger, with hope that you are a reliable
and trustworthy person, to help, or find a trustworthy individual that will assist and
secretly secure the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by his Bank since the mandatory five year waiting period, allowed by United
Kingdom law, has expired. It is important that my contact be somebody who can in no way be
identified with me in order to avoid suspicion of insider dealing.

Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an Account valued at about 18.5M
has issued me an urgent notice yesterday to provide the next of kin or have the Account confiscated
within 10 working days, hence this is why I am contacting you. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating
the relatives, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased as you are also a
foreigner(you just have to answer the same name with my client) so that the proceed of this Account valued
at 18.5M, minus interest, can be
paid to you and then you and i can share the money, 60% for me and 40% for you undoubtedly. You don't need any
experience to do this, I have all necessary legal documents that will be used to back up all claims we
will make with your name.

All I require from you is your honest co-operation and full guarantee and assurance that you
shall hand me over my 60% in good faith and also assist me in investing some of my share in a lucrative
business in your country because I shall come over to your country immediately it is done.
To know that this offer is geniue and legal, i have the deceased information below to login into is account,
--Username---
--Password---
so you will be able to veiw the account and confirm that the 18.5m is avalaible in his account,
i am truely his account officer,so i have all is account details with me.


I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach
of the law, making it 100% risk free on your side. Expecting to hear from you soonest, by return e-mail to
so that we can commence processing immediately. also you can call me on this number
I await your urgent response immedaitely
Best regards
Wanda Cross

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