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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: "Amanda Anderson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <amanda12345k@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:45:52 +0100
Subject: Hello Dear

Hello Dear,
My name is Ms.Amanda Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu,I am a staff of UBA Bank Ltd here in Ghana. I am pleased to contact you for a very urgent and confidential business proposal which I believe will benefit both of us after completion. I contacting you after a careful thought that you might be capable of handling this top secret business transaction which I will explain more to you in my next reply.

I'm contacting you to assist me to receive the amount (US$9.5 Million) left by one of our late customer who died in Plane Crash, which crashed on Monday,25th July, 2000 by Concorde Airline [Flight AF4590],see the website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm). this fund has been dormant (in-active) and forgotten for years in our bank without anybody coming for it. I contact you to stand as His beneficiary because the funds will soon be confiscate by next Month if I did not hurry up to negociate with somebody to claims to the fund and transfer it abroad.

We shall discuss about % upon your respond, Kindly reply for more details if you are interested or delete it if you are not interested at all.

I wait to hear from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Ms. Amanda

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