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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: Mr Karim Mazen <mr_karimmazen01@voila.fr>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:56:54 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: WILL YOU ASSIST?




Dear Friend,
       
       How are you? I am contacting you with real sense of humanity which I hope that you will be there always for me as my Partner!! I got your contact from your country web-site, while surfing through internet that gives me an access to reach you. I am in a situation that required someone special, whom I can trust as my partner.

I am the manager of Auditing and Accounting department of Bank Regional De Solidarity here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.5m dollars (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand Us Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (Mr. Andreas Schranner from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in a plane crash, Monday, 31, July 2000.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guiding and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of foreign Account, and 60% would be for me. Send your private telephone and fax number to me for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application claims which you will file and forward to bank.

I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

Waiting to hear from you soon, so that I will give you full details.

Thanks with best regards
Mr. Karim Mazen

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