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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: "George Suzuki" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <suzuki.george@yahoo.ie>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:37:45 -0700
Subject: From George Nathan,

Compliment of the day!!!
 
My name will sound strange to you while opening your email account and finding a content of my letter in your email account will surely create a symbol of a life Business relationship. My name is George Nathan, I am currently working with HSBC Bank , London, United Kingdom and I am contacting only to know if you have any Personal/ Company account which we can use to transfer some Investment funds out of an existing Dormant account in our Bank.
 
Actually, we have a Customer Investment Deposited funds in our Bank, this Deposited was made by a deceased customer in 2003 and since my inception into office on 4th Jan 2007, I then found this account and when I investigated deeply by contacting the assigned next of kin I also found that the Depositor did not appoint anybody as his next of kin and nobody has operated on this account again after 2004 and if I do not act fast now, the money will be transferred to the HM Treasury as unclaimed Fund.
 
So we are seeking your assistance to work together with you as our Partner so we can move the funds directly to your Personal / Company account.  We are very much interested to work with you as long as you are sincere to keep our share after this transaction.
 
Basically the fund can be moved from our Bank in London to your Bank account within 4 to 5 Banking working days after you accepted our offer. Currently we are two Managers working on this deal and we agreed to reward you with 30% of the total Investment fund transferred to your Bank account while I (Mr. George Nathan) and my associate (Mr. Sebastian Donnelly) will part away with the 70% of the Investment fund. The amount involved is GBP85, 000,000.00.
 
Please you are welcome to ask any questions regarding the subject and content of my email and be rest assured you will get your 30% as this is absolutely risk free.
 
Thanks for your time and understanding
 
 
Mr. George Nathan

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