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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: "Miss Stella" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stellayaiinoon1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 23:16:16 -0000
Subject: Hello Dear.

Hello Dear,
Am so happy contacting with you today though my mail will come as a surprise to you, but I strongly believe
that you will be a good person to me.
Meanwhile, My name is Miss Stella Yainoon am 22 years old,the only daughter of late Mr.Idrua Yainoon my late father was the former Director of Fish/ Rice and Rubber Producing industry and also a
politician here in my country before the rebels attacked our house and kill parents, Luckily to me, i was in school when the incident happened.

Before the death of parents, my father told me that he deposited the sum of US$ 9,500,000.( Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) with a Bank here under fixed suspense account that he used my name as the next of kin. He also told me that his intention was to open a Bank account in overseas with my name and transfer the money for foreign business investments that i will manage when i grow up.

Please, my reasons of contacting you is to request for your co-operation and assistance to help me transfer this money into a foreign account of yours by providing a bank account either company’s or your private account where the money can be remitted in your care since my late father did not open the foreign account for me before
his death, so that i will join you over to your country for a business investment with my money and also to continue my new life together with you and your family because I have nobody here with me. I tried my best to withdraw some money out of the total money but the bank manager told me that my late father made an agreement with them that I cannot have access to the money in my country here unless it is transferred outside the country for the business investment as he stated on the agreement.

If you agree on this, I'll give you 20% of the total money when transferred, then 5% will be given to you if you made any expenses on the cause of the transfer Please remember the confidentiality and urgency my mail required while I expect to hear from you.
Thanks Again.

Miss. Stella Yainoon.

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