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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: felixomard147@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 05:00:31 -0400
Subject: hello

Hello Dearest One,
Greetings to you and every members of your family,
I and my mother write to seek for your assistance; we got your contact information when we where looking for a God-fearing,

honest and trustworthy person whom will help us receive our consignment boxes as our foreign partner.
First and foremost I want to introduce myself to you. My name is Felix Omard and my mother is Rose Omard we are from

Sierra-Leone, our boxes contains $2 million United States dollars, the consignments are presently in United States . The

consignment got to the state through the help of a U.N diplomat, the fact is that the Diplomat is supposed to have

delivered this consignment to my late foreign partner Mr. Gerald Murphy in the USA .
The week the Diplomat was suppose to deliver the consignment to Mr. Murphy, as he called him for his home description ,

Mr. Gerald house help informed the Diplomat that Mr. Murphy hard a fatal car accident which led to his death .
Mr. Murphy has already paid the demurages from the security company, and he paid for custom check report he also assisted

us in getting the DRUG / ANTI TERRORIST CERTIFICATE, but unfortunately he had passed on, that was why the diplomat has to

deposit the consignment in the state and called us to inform us about what is happening.
Please I and my mother seek for your help to get in contact with the Diplomat so that he can deliver the box to you and

please do not mention the content of the box to the diplomat because he only knows that the box contain family valuables. I

will explain better to you later.
Please, Contact me back now so i can tell you how to contact the Diplomat on time and get everything done,
My Private E-mail: felixomard147@gmail.com
I await your urgent response.
Thank you.
Felix Omard and Family



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