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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: Stella Andrew <stellaandrew1990@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 20:12:51 +0100
Subject: Attention

Greetings from Stella

My name is Mrs. Stella Andrew. the Branch manager to National Westminster
Bank PLC London. listen there is an Airport Crash- with (UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES) And we discover that one of our client Mr. Christian Eich, who
died in
the plane crash Monday, 31 July 2000 along with his wife and two children.

I am writing this letter to ask for your support, and co-operation to carry
out this business opportunity in my department. After annual audit Last
month in my branch I discover documents of a late client Mr. Christian
Eich, A German business magnate who made a numbered fixed deposit with this
branch valued ($28M) (Twenty EightMillion United State Dollars,) and I was
lucky to have the scan documents with me in
save position.

I discovered from his contract employers, the Petroleum Corporation that
Mr. Christian Eich , died in the plane crash Monday, 31 July 2000 along
with two children, (an air France jet liner) with his entire family and
other passengers on board as you can confirm it yourself via the website
below for (BBC NEWS)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm

According to bank of Africa law, after the expiration of 20 (Twenty) years,
if nobody apply for the claim, it will confiscate as state treasury if
nobody apply for the claim, I am seeking for your support to stand as next
of kin/ beneficiary to claim these funds, so that we move it into useful
investments, I am ready to share with you 50% for you and 50% will be kept
for me, You will provide offshore account where the funds will be transfer
to.

Reason while I am contacting you, is because I cannot stand in the
forefront to claim the funds alone, because I am currently working with the
bank, reply to my private E-mail:(stellaandrew1990@gmail.com)

I will like you to provide me with the following details if you are
interested:

(1) Your Valid Direct Tel/ Mobile/Fax Number.
(2) Your Full Name:
(3) Current Resident Address.
(4) Your Private E-mail Address.
(5) Your Occupation:
(6) Your Age and Sex:
(7) Your Nationality:

Then i shall furnish you with due process, of concluding this transaction
without any delay. please discard this message if you are not interested.
One Passionate appeal, i will make to you, is not to discuss this matter
with anybody, if you have any reasons to reject this offer, please and
please destroy this message as any Leakage of this information, will be too
bad for me at my work place as the Branch Manager.
Thanks for your kind understanding.

Mrs. Stella Andrew.
Nat west Bank

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