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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: "Linda Moyo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lindamoyo00@globomail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:21:16 -0700
Subject: GET BACK TO ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED!!

My name is Linda Moyo i work with FNB Bank South Africa.I am an account officer to one of my late client that have account with our bank and his account has been dormant for over 5years until now, i was monitoring his account for some years till now and there was no claim to the funds therein.

Thank God for such a wonderful opportunity to know someone like you i can trust.I hereby inform you to join hands with me to move this money out of our bank to your nominated account of your choice as i have the KEY of this money transaction in my hand.

To commerce on this transaction,you are advised to make a trip to meet with me here in South Africa to discuss all the modalities involved, then i will assist you in opening a Non-residential account in your name with our bank,to enable me to use my position in our bank to transfer the said funds ($17million) into your newly open account before onward transfer to your choice account.

Kindly get back to me on your decision to enable us proceed.

Yours faithful
Linda Moyo.

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