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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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Fraud email example:

From: adepeters12@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 19:11:22 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Please=20Respond?=

From Mr. Adebayo Peters
Lagos Nigeria.

My name is Mr. Adebayo Peters i am the chief accountant of the lagos/ Apapa
bank branch of The Unity Trust Bank Plc. I was the personal accountantto
the Late Mr. Gabriel, who used to work with sheil development coperation
a national of your country.

My client and his family died in an Air crash on 30th Jan 2001, my client,
his wife and their two children were involved. Since then I have made several
enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives,
this has also proved unsuccessful.

I contacted you since i needed someone that will assist me in repatriation
this fund into his/her account since the bank has given an autimatum of
three weeks for me to get the relative which from a right source i have
been made to understand that some top government offcial are trying to Divert
the fund for there own selfish interest.

Which i have decided to contact you as a foreigner so we can both carry
out this transaction toegther instead of allowing the Government to confiscate
it as an UNCLAIMED FUND because his account is worth 35Million Dollars.

Will await your response to be able to give you further details on the necessary
processes we will be taking since every step we will take has to be done
legally as i was his personal account before his death.

Best Regards,
Mr. Adebayo Peters







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