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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: "Dr. Greg Johnson" <officefile----0224@att.net>
Reply-To: info.gregj@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:11:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Governments has return the sum of us $10.000.00USD each to 20 victims.---


Date: 24- 02 2011    
>From The Desk
Of: Dr. Greg Johnson
Financial Activities Monitored.
Cotonou –BENIN
ATTN: BENEFICIARY,

We got to know about your person via Western Union/Money Gram drive that was conducted to investigate all the money that was sent to Republic of Benin between January 2009 to 2010. In the cause of our investigation it has come to our knowledge that you are involved in the claim of FUNDS and have paid out some money to different unknown people and we have been able to come up with some good result about the people that have extorted money from you illegally.

In case you are currently dealing with any one of them regarding your fund, we urge you to stop further contact with them as you are taking a very big risk and it might interest you to know that you will never get the fund from them as they have nothing to offer you .The hoodlums will continue coming up with expenses and thereby requesting for money from you until you go Bankrupt.

 I wish to inform you of the new decision taking by the Governments to return the sum of us $10.000.00USD to  20 victims from the money which was recovered from some of the impostors . In order to follow the normal court rules you are advice to contact me back with the payment details and all your informations so that i will forward it to Barrister.Tony Jaja Designation: Legal Practitioner & Senior Advocate Address: B.H.C. S Office Chambers carry 12 Cotonou Avenue Ro presidencies BENIN and Indicate your telephone numbers and resident Address while contacting me because contacting the barrister is not Important.


Note you are to bear the cost of the fee for the affidavit of Guarantee $27  - and on the confirmation of the affidavit from the BENIN High court you are to submit the affidavit to us via email: ( info.gregj@gmail.com )   along with account information on where you will receive the payment. And you are require to send the requested fee with the below details with my name:

1.RECEIVER NAME---Kelvin O. Omokwe
2.COUNTRY-- BENIN REPUBLIC.
3.CITY---COTONOU .Add :--NO 123 SEGBEYA cotonou  -Benin.
5.TEXT QUESTION--what colure  
6.TEXT ANSWER---white
7.Amount---$27  -

Best regards as we are waiting to receive the duplicate copy of your affidavit of guarantee and account information to enable us release the money to you. Please as soon as you have send the requested fee, try to forward us the MTCN/ Western union Payment slip.

Waiting to hear from you soon.
Best regards,
Dr. Greg Johnson

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