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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: Avis <marieaviss@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <avismarie1@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:44:30 -0700
Subject: Re: Project fund

Hi,

My name is Ms. Marie Avis, a wife of Mr. John Avis, he is one of the managerial staff in Chevron / Texaco in the United Kingdom, and we are a childless couple, and after some years of childlessness in marriage, I suggest adopting of a baby girl and my late husband smile in his peculiar way and replied and said no need for adoption, and he said in his 60s he will build a big charity/motherless babies home. He came back from offshore Riggs complaining about a chest related illness, and he asked me to prepare his meal and I went to the kitchen and return about 4 minutes later and met him sleeping, which I later found out he is dead and not sleeping, it was a dark day, it was like a cinema.

My late husband deposited the sum of 9,500,000.00Eur (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros Only) in a security deposit company, in Madrid Spain, being part of the money for his further plans.

I tried to process the claim to enable me to start the project as my late husband planned before the sudden death, but, unfortunately few days after the death of my husband, I had a stroke and I went to hospital for a checkup and discovered I developed High Blood Pressure (BP) and too diagnosis two different types of cancer, and I am suffering from the cancerous and stroke illness till today.

I went to check up last week and my doctor told me that I had limited days to live and I become very confused, many things came to my mind, and I become confused more and more to the point discover, life, the world and everything had no value. I look at my late husband's relations, they are junk and heartless people, My late husband, parent adopted me, I traveled to Italy 2004 to trace the address of the motherless home based on the documents in the house and nothing of such nature, I asked people living over there and was informed the motherless home was closed many years ago, and no more existing.

In my vision I got your contact, and the following day I google the contact and it is real and that is why I am contacting you to do the work, as the manager, you will take 10% of the total money and use 10% to pay your workers and use 80% to build a motherless babies home and it will appeal to my spirit too if you can hold a conference for poverty alleviation and deposit 10,000 Eur to each motherless homes attend the seminar.

Please if you are sure that you will be honest and interested to do the work, reply immediately for details, but if you are not honest person or interested feel free to decline.

Please remember to register a motherless home, the following name: M.J. Avis charity home.


God bless you.
Ms. Marie Avis

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