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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: Western union Transfer <officccefillllllllllllllllllllle@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Western union Transfer <wu-transfer@foxmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:26:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: 2014 SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION FROM THE (IMF) BENIN REPUBLIC


2014 SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION FROM THE (IMF) BENIN REPUBLIC
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating all the scam victimsand your email address was found in the scam victim's list. This WesternUnion®office has been mandated by the IMF to transfer your compensation toyou via Western Union® Money Transfer.
However, we have concluded to affect your own payment through WesternUnion® Money Transfer, €5,000 twice daily until the total sum of Euros€4.8,000.00 is completely transferred to you. We can not be able tosend the payment with your email address alone; therefore we need yourinformation as to where we will be sending the funds, such as;
1. Full Name:2. Full Address:3. Citt,State,Zip code:4. Phone Number:5. Nationality:6. Sex:7. Occupation:Copy of your Identification: Drivers License OR International Passport:
Note that your payment is ready to be transferred to you immediately we receive above information from you and within 72 hours if we did not hear from you, payment files will be returned to the IMFthis was the instruction given to us by the IMF. We will start the transfer as soon as we received your information.
Thanks,RegardDr Jerry Young Director Western Union®Money Transfer Head Office,Phone: +229 99139024Email wu-transfer@foxmail.com

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