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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: Jessica Philip <jesyphil4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jessyph4@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:14:56 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL DEAL




GREETINGS.
 
This mail might come to you as a surprise but please consider it as a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility. My names are Jessica Philip, from United Kingdom working with Natwest Bank PLC London; I am the personal account officer to the late great Malaysian man Mr. Alif Suleiman, the diseased customer who has an account in one of our bank here in London, United Kingdom. The fund has been lying in a suspense account without anybody coming to put claim over the money since the death of the account owner who was a victim of December 26, 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia

My reason of contacting you is to assist me transfer the fund ($ 10,600.000 USD) Ten Million Six Hundred Thousand United State Dollars from a Cooperate Bank here in United Kingdom to your overseas account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment.

You can either provide us with an existing account or to setup a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down either now or in future because this business is my life. The owner of this account is a Malaysian and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary, As a matter of fact; I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment and mutual benefit since I am the personal accountant to the deceased.

I am only contacted you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a person here UK, but it can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct information of the account, at the conclusion of the transfer you will take 40%, and the remaining 60% will be for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me down once the fund go into your account I will then send you the more details about the transaction immediately for more understanding.
If you are interested, please forward the following information as below:

{1} Your Name……………………..

{2} your Telephone No…………………

{3} Your Occupation…………………

{4} Your Country of Origin…………………

{5}Your Age…………………


Best Regards
Mrs. Jessica Philip

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