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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: STANDARD CHARTERED BANK GHANA LIMITED <standardcharteredbk23@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 16:19:39 -0700
Subject: YOUR URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED.

Hello Dear,

My name is James Dabeni,I am Chairman of the Auditing and Accounts
Department of STANDARD CHARTERED BANK in Accra, Ghana.I am writing to
you in regards to one of our client with a dormant account .His name
is Konstantine Bauer an engineer from the Russia.He died in a car
accident along with his wife and members of his family here in my
country Four years ago.

After the Death of the,Engineer Konstantine Bauer,an Oil contractor,I
kept a close watch at the Deposit Accounts and Records and since then
no one has come to claim the Fund in his Account as the next of
Kin.The money in his Account is $8.5mllion.(Eight Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars). If left unclaimed,the fund will be transferred to
the state treasury.

As it stands now, there is one in position to obtain the necessary
information to claim this Fund other than my very self, given my
position in the Bank. Based on the fact that no one came forward to
claim the Fund as the next of kin,I hereby ask you to cooperate with
me in using you to transfer this Fund to a foreign Account for mutual
sharing between you and me.So far I'm the only one with the
information and details of the deceased account because I deleted all
the information about his account from our database.

Thus,what is required is for you to provide a foreign account where
the fund can be transferred into.You have to send your full: Name and
Address,Telephone / Fax Number,Bank Name and Account where the money
will be transferred to.

I will like you to know that you shall have 40% (percent) of the total
fund as your share after the completion of the transfer.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
JAMES DABENI.

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