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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: Smith Williams <m.trivilini@alice.it>
Reply-To: desano@blumail.org
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 06:41:08 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re:Good-news


Hello,After a general meeting today by this office ,including officials from
the International Monetary Fund (I.M.F), we have

short listed your name amongst four others to be paid the sum of $2.5M through
ATM,this was because of petitions and

allegations from Foreign Contractors/beneficiaries for non payment of
inherited
funds,but We have received a power of

attorney from one Jack Wong from USA, asking to Change the beneficiary because
you have been sentenced to JAIL, please

confirm this and contact Mr.Desmond Anozie with your information:
name/address/contry/phone for final credit of your payment

with the below information.

Name: Desmond Anozie
Email: desano@blumail.org.
Regards
Smith Williams

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