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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: "Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. (EFCC)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <efccfraudtaskforce@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:25:24 -0800
Subject: CLAIM YOUR LOST FUND SCAM VICTIMS

Attn Scam Victims,

We the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the joint operation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the International Police (INTERPOL) have put Together to combat cyber crime across the Globe,which Internet scam and money laundering in Africa,America,Europe Asia and middle east are to be the number one priority to tackle against online criminals .

Our commission has been in existence since 2017 and our duties is to fight against internet fraudster.following are the number of arrested fraudster here in Africa over 3,245 while 2,045 of them are in our custody here in Nigeria after thoroughly Interrogation that lead to the confession of how you where been defrauded of your hard earn money by their treks which at the time of the confession your email contact was given to us by this criminal.and we are still in search for some of these internet fraudsters and we are aware that a lot of foreigners like you have been deceived of huge amount of money and also have lost to this fraudsters after all trek of promising you percentages in their letters for you to help them move huge funds they will end up demanding for Advance fee from you and in return you will get nothing.
these fraudsters have been acting with this treks as COMPENSATION AWARD HOUSES, BANKS WIRE TRANSFER, deceiving people with our good office name of ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC),also they are impersonating the SENATE PRESIDENT OFFICE , MINISTRY OF FINANCE, COURIER SERVICES, and DIPLOMATIC representatives.

However The present Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari through the assistance of world bank have sign a Compensation Check of a total sum of one Million five hundred thousand United states Dollars ($1,500,000.00) only as compensation to all scam victims that was affected with the lost as this was a ceiling rate as some suffers more while others suffers less. The idea is to restore you back to the former position that you would have been if not that you were been defrauded by this criminals.

please note: no fee will be ask or any way to extort money from you it free and fair all we need from you is to Cooperate and follow our due process and you will received your compensation fund.

You are strongly advice to send the under listed information for further processing of your compensation fund.


Your FULL Name,Direct Mobile Line, occupation, Private Email Address,Country, sex ,age


TREAT AS URGENT,

Sincerely

Executive Chairman
MR. IBRAHIM MUSTAFA MAGU

P.M.B. 0187,
Garki,
Abuja — F.C.T.
TEL+234 0815798840
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. (E.F.C.C).

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