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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: From Mr.Zhang Ya
Reply-To: <zhangyacolimited@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:38:53 -0700
Subject: VACANT JOB OFFER



Good day Sir/Madam, =


I am Mr. Zhang Ya, founder of Zhangya Corporation, China with vast investm=
ents in 4 countries is requesting your service as =


Cash Management Partner in the USA.Zhang Ya owns portfolio in 23 businesses=
in USA worth approximately US$217m via Joint =


Ventures (JV), Equity Finance Partnerships, and Angel Investments with est=
imated annual Returns-on-Investments (ROI) of =


$17.5m. (Approximately US $1.45m monthly). We do have backlog of debts run=
ning into $2m and concurrent ROIs in excess of =


$600,000 monthly awaiting collections, as our present partners are overwhel=
med with volumes of inflow.Partner with us.Please, kindly open the attachme=
nt for more details.
[Reply to:zhangyacolimited@gmail.com]

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