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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: "Col John Fletcher" (may be fake)
Reply-To: < coljfletcher11@Safe-mail.net>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 09:12:18 -0500
Subject: U.S MARINE IN AFGHAN NEED YOUR HELP

Greetings,

I'm Col. John Fletcher USMC Commander stationed in Afghanistan for the NATO peace
keeping and associate of Brig General Daniel Menard, who is being detained here in Afghanistan for
Gun running.

I have in my possession, the sum of $18.5million dollars proceeds from a deal
in which I was involved here with Brig General Daniel Menard

I'm in dire need of your assistance to move the fund out of this country
immediately pending our final disengagement from here later this year.


Please get back to me asap for further details on coljfletcher11@safe-mail.net

You can visit the link below to read more about the drug deals and gun running going on this country.

http://news.yahoo.com/39-ex-canadian-top-general-afghanistan-detained-39-154613147.html


I wait for your urgent response.

Regards.

Col. John Fletcher.

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