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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: Scott Eddie <scotteddiecpt6@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Scott Eddie <scotteddiecpt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:54:10 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Hello


Hello

Greetings,
My name is Captain Scott Eddie, I am American soldier in peace keeping force in Iraq, I am serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division in United States, as you know insurgents everyday going on in Iraq. On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of US$7.3Million dollars in cash, which was recovered from one of our raids on terrorists here in this country because they keep most of their money at home for evil activities which they normally get through illegal deals on crude oil.

Please go through this website for more verification.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

Based on the suffering we undergo here some of us do meet such luck. It happened that I went for this raid with the men in my unit and I decided to take it as my share for my stress here in this evil land filled with suicide bombers. I deposited this money with a red cross agent informing him that we are making contact for the real owner of the money. It is under my power to approve whoever comes forth for this money. I wish to use this money and invest anywhere in world outside the territory of the United Kingdom because that is where I intend to move over with my family at my retirement.

I am a uniformed man and I cannot be parading such an amount so I need to present someone as the beneficiary, and I need somebody I can trust and it would be wise working with somebody like you. If you accept, I will move the money out where you will be the beneficiary.
I am American soldier and an intelligence officer at that so I have 100% authentic means of transferring the money through diplomatic means. I just need your acceptance and all is done. Please if you are interested in this transaction, get back to me so that I will give to you the complete details you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully. Where we are now we can only communicate through our military communication facilities which is secured so nobody can monitor our emails. I will only reach you through email, because our calls might be monitored.

If you are interested please send me your personal mobile number so I can call you for further inquiries when I am out of our military network. I am writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not reply to this email and please delete this message. I am doing this on trust, you should understand and you should know that as a trained military expert I will always play safe in case you are the bad type, but I pray you are not. I wait for your response so we can go on. I will give to you 30% of the sum and 70% is for me.

Await to read you respond via this email scotteddiecpt@gmail.com
Regard s,
Capt.Scott Eddie


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