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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. PAUL MADI" <mrpaulmadi6@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 00:28:40 +0100
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE.

My Dearest Friend,

I am MR. PAUL MADI, The chief auditor in bank of Africa (boa) Burkina
Faso West African, One of our customers, with his entire family was
among the victims of plane crash and before his death, he has an
account with us valued at $27.2million us dollars(twenty-seven million
two hundred thousand us dollars) in our bank and according to the
Burkina Faso law, at the expiration of Ten years if nobody applies to
claim the funds a grace of one year also will be given before the
money will revert to the ownership of the Burkina Faso government.

My proposals is that i will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the
next of kin or distant cousin for us to claim this money, so that the
fruits of this old man’s labour will not get into the hands of some
corrupt government officials who will later use the money to sponsor
war in Africa and kill innocent citizens in the search for political
power.

As a foreign partner which this money will be transfer into your
account, you are entitle to 40% of the total money while 55% will be
for me as the moderator of this transaction and 5% will be mapped out
for any expenditure that may be incur during the course of this
transaction. Please note that there will be no problem as my bank has
made all effort through to reach for any of his relation but all was
fruitless.

My position as the chief auditor in this bank guarantees the
successful execution of this (deal) transaction.

Please send the following:

1)your full name.....
2) sex.....
3) age.....
4) country.....
5)passport or photo.....
6)occupation.....
7) personal Mobile number.....
8) Personal fax number.....
9) Home &office address.....

Thanks.

MR. PAUL MADI.

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