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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: "Causanille Rovira" <rovi3@myalpha.biz>
Reply-To: causanillerovira11@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:17:52 +0000
Subject: MY WISH

Greetings to you
My names are Causanilles Rovira maria jose A Spanish Nationality, I Am suffering from Cancer of the Breast, I was brought to London for surgery operation and there the Doctor discorvered that the Cancer has gotten to the last Stage. According to him I have a short time to live.

Because of this fear, I have sold almost of my Valuable Properties which I inherited from my late Husband, and deposited the fund with A financial institute.

"Now I Want my funds to be use for Charitable work and for helping less privileged anywhere in the World". Because of my condition, I cannot do this Charity work myself, so I am contacting you because I want to present you to my Bank as my Beneficiary to receive the fund and use it for CHARITY WORK.

please reply me, If you promise to do my WISH

Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours Faithfully
Causanilles Rovira

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