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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: David Russell <davidrussell2227@gmail.com>
Reply-To: davidrussell227@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 10:35:46 +0000
Subject: Hello



Hello,

My name is Capt. David Russell, I am a U.S soldier serving with North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops here in Afghanistan. I am
contacting you based on my personal interest to develop a mutual
business relationship with you in your country.

l have a mutual beneficial business transaction valued at the tune of
$10,745,000.00 which l will like to introduce to you and this will be
a joint venture investment there in your country.

In View of this foregoing issue l will like to receive your response
for me to release the details and nature of this transaction, your
phone number will be most important to me for an oral discussion on
this issue. Please in case you are not interested do inform me quickly
so that l will solicit for another business partner on this regards.

Please due to the fact that I am still in active service with my firm
I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost
indulgence to keep this matter extraordinary confidential, whatever
your decision, while I await your prompt response.

Best Regards,
Capt. David Russell.

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