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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: "Capt Marc Sharry" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <marc.s1972@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:57:51 -0400
Subject: I WANT YOU TO WORK WITH ME!

Dear Sir / madam
 
 
I am a captain with the United Nations troop in Afghanistan, on war against terrorism. Based on the United States
legislative and executive  decision,  for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. Our mission is to help beef up terrorist
targeted states, mostly the United States and  the European Union  on war against terrorism.
On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of (15.9million U.S.D) Which I got from crude
oil deal  here in  Afghanistan. I deposited this money with a Red Cross agent informing him that we are making contact for
the real owner of the money.
It is under my power to approve whoever that comes forth for this money, I want to invest the money as soon as I am
deployed into your country soon  and i will seek for your advice on that since I am  not a good business culture person. I
cannot move this money to United States because I will be in  your country for about 3years,
So I need someone I  could trust to channel this funds and If you accept i will transfer the money to your country where
you will be the beneficiary  because I am a uniformed person and I cannot be parading such an amount so I need to present
someone as the beneficiary. I am an American and  an intelligence officer so to say, I have a 100% authentic means of
transferring the  money through a diplomatic courier service,
I just need your acceptance and trust, and then all is done. Please if you are interested  in this transaction I will give
to you the complete details you  need for us to carry out this transaction successfully, I decided to  find someone that is
real and not imaginary and that is why I went for a secured  site where I can be sure that the person is real. I  believe I
can trust you?
Where we are now we can only communicate through our military communication facilities which is much secured so nobody can
monitor  our  conversation, then I can explain in details to you,at the moment i can only reach you through email, because
our calls might be  monitored, i just  have to be sure of whom I am dealing with
I will give to you 30% of the sum and 70% is for me. I hope am been fair on this deal, get back to me with your full
information such  as:
 
Your Full Name,_______
Your Full Address,_________
Your Direct Cell phone Number,_____________
Occupation and Age.
 
If you are interested please send me your personal details for further information when I am out of our military network am
writing  from a fresh  email account so if you are not interested do not reply to this e-mail and please delete this
message, if no response  after 3days I will then search for  someone else. I wait for your contact details so we can go on.
Regards,
Capt Marc Sharry

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