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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: "Mr.Dunlop Philip" <adim.@silver.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: dunlopphilip2022d@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:00:06 +0900 (JST)
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT!!{Read and Reply}




Dear,

I know that This letter might surprise you because, we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence. But I believe it is one day that you get know somebody either in physical or through correspondence, I found it interesting, and decided to contact you for a business transaction.

Be so kind to contact me at your earliest-convenient for a possible business deal involving money transfer of about £52,000,000 (Fifty Two Million British Pounds).

I am presently in London working an external auditor with the Scotland Bank at their offshore department.In one of our periodic auditing I discovered a dormant accounts with holding balance of £52,000,000(Fifty Two Million British Pounds) which has not been operated for the past three years.From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. With your sincere assistant and co-operation, I have secretly discussed this matter with the bank manager here and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with us although due to his position he did not want to take active part but as soon as you follow my instructions everything will be successful because we will be working hand in hand with him.

We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the deceased and after due legel processes have been followed the fund will be released to your account without delay and we will use it for investment and to assist the less privileged in the society because if we left the fund with the government it will be fortified for nothing and will be used to suppress the poor masses in the society.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act.

On receipt of your response I will furnish you with detailed clarification as it relates to this mutual benefit transaction. I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible if you are interested. You should contact me at my private Email:Address.at:{dunlopphilip2022d@gmail.com}

Best regards,
Mr. Dunlop S Philip








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