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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: Rita <my.officeusb1@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: diline39@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 23:01:37 +0100
Subject: Thanks and God bless you

Hello,

My name is Rita Taylor, from Liberia. I am 19 years old an orphan. I was
adopted at the age of one year and nine months by my beloved father, late
captain John Taylor. A loving and caring father may his soul rest in peace.
He died on the 2nd of September, 2013 due to a heart problem (cancer of the
heart). Before the death of my father, he was a senior captain at Princess
Kayla Shipping Company; he was a wealthy and well known man. His presence
will never depart from my heart. Before his death, he wrote a WILL, and
WILLED everything he had to me, which I never knew until 1st of March, 2014
when his honest and gentle barrister called for a family meeting to read
his WILL. After reading the will, that was the moment I discovered he
willed everything to me and that was the moment I knew that I am an orphan
for the past 19 years, that was the moment my problem started from the
people I called my Aunt and my uncle. They took everything from me, both
the house, his estates and companies I have nothing to do than to accept it
because I don,t know where to go, no brother, no sister, no uncle.

Until 2nd of April, 2014 around 7am, his barrister, Barrister Tony Addo
called me and gave an envelope. To my surprise when I opened it I saw a
deposit certificate of Twenty Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand USD
($20,750.000.00USD) that my late father deposited for my future up keeping.
I was filled with tears, I went to his grave, I cried and weep for him to
come out but all in vain. My uncle saw me and asked me what was going on, I
tried to hide the envelope from him but he forced me and took it. Later he
gave it to me with one condition that he will make love with me which I
refuse because I cannot break my virginity with a man I call my uncle. He
tried to take the envelope from me but I ran away with the envelope to a
refugee camp, where I am now.

I called the bank with the Barrister whom is like a father to me too, they
advised me to stay in the refugee camp not to come back home because my
uncle and aunt are looking for me to take the certificate from me and catch
the money because my father did it without an original certificate nobody
can get access to the fund. The security man I met in the camp advise me to
look for a foreign beneficiary who can help me transfer the fund for me to
leave Ghana.
I called the bank manager which he advised me too with the barrister that
whenever I get a foreign beneficiary I trust and that will take me as his
daughter they will assist to transfer the fund. Please take me as your
daughter and I promise you will never regret having me as your daughter.
Thanks and God bless you. Please i don't have personal computer i use the
security man computer to send this message to you.

Please email me on: ffile52@yahoo.com

Yours sincerely
Daughter,
Princess Rita Taylor

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