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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: Barrister Anusuya Kumaran <charles.hos@tim.it>
Reply-To: barrister_kumaran@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 06:27:59 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

My Dear How are you?,

I hope you are doing very fine there.Please do not be surprise to receive this
later from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. My name
is Barrister Anusuya Kumaran from Malaysia; I have a client that died in 2004.
My client left behind a large sum of money to the tune of six Million two
Hundred thousand United State Dollars (USD$6.2m).

Being his attorney, his bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin
or the account will be declared unserviceable and the fund diverted to the
bank
treasury. So far, all the effort to get a hold of someone related to this man
has proved abortive. Hence I have contacted you because you are bearing the
same surname with my client. I am contacting you to help me in distributing of
the funds in your account or any account you may provide.

I am actually asking for your consent to present you to the Bank as the Next of
Kin/ beneficiary of my late client fund, (But you do not need to be here
present) since you have the same surname with my client, so that the proceeds
of this account can be paid to you. Then we can share the fund on a mutually
agreed-upon percentage of 50% to me, 50% to your kind self. All the legal
documents to back up your claims shall be provided upon request.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us achieve this opportunity.
If this business proposition offends you, do accept my sincere apology. If on
the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, kindly get back to me.

Reply to my private email; (anusuya_kumaran@yahoo.com)

Kindest Regards.

Barrister Anusuya Kumaran

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