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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: Dora Nkum <doraankum@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:16:51 +0000
Subject: HELLO MY DEAR


HELLO MY DEAR,
I am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow from my heart. With due respect, trust and humanity. Honestly, I will really like to have a good relationship with you and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you, is due to the urgency of my situation. My name is Dora Nkum Edward, I was born in 1993, the only child of my father and I come from Ivory Coast in West Africa. After the death of my father, my uncles conspired and sold my father's property to a Lebanese Expatriate and which they shared the money among themselves and leave me with nothing. One faithful morning, I opened my father's box and found some documents which he used to deposit huge amount of money in a Bank in Ivory Coast with my name as the next of kin. The amount is Four Million, five hundred thousand Euro (€4,500,000.00) and I have confirmed from the Bank. Please I want you to help me transfer this money to your country and help me to come over to your country and continue my education. It is my intention to compensate you with 30% of the total money for your service and you help me to invest the balance in a profitable business in your country. I will like to disclose much to you if you can help me to relocate to your country because my uncles have threatened to assassinate me because I have refused to hand over the documents to them. I will appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction sincerely. Please do keep this only to yourself for now until the money is released to your country. I have the documents for the claims.
Yours,
Dora Nkum Edward (Miss)
















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