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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: "David Ebube" <da_eb02@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: da_eb02@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:00:37 +0200
Subject: Can You?

I am Mr.David Ebube a registered financial security agent of the FSA (Financial Services Authority) in the Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire ; the FSA is attached to the Department of Treasury.
I have been in charge of a particular dormant/suspense account with a balance of US$6.5 million (Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), which no one from my proficient examination, using the extensive data protection database, has laid claims to. This account has
been dormant since 1999 and the department has been changing custodians of the funds for the last 3 (three) years, without a claimant.

At this stage, I need a very reliable and responsible dealing minded person who would assist me in the claims of the funds, so that it would not be reverted to the British and European Authorities. I will initiate a systematic transfer of the said funds into an account opened in your name or company's, whichever you find to be most appropriate.

I will need your response, in order to grant you access to the detailed facts and figures to this account. I have been able to contact you; based on information retrieved from the credit reference database attached to my institution. Iwill be most willing to go into partnership with you to see
this task completed within a limited time frame. I assure you there would be no risk to your name or personality.

But, you would be required to open an account here and the institution will guide accordingly. I hope you understand why I can't disclose exclusive data at this stage. Do kindly send your return email to this particular email address:da_eb01@yahoo.fr ; upon this, I will be able to
send you more details regarding this deal.
If I do not hear from you in the next few days I would take for granted you are not interested.
It will be a good thing if you could provide a phone number to reach you. I look forward to an excellent business relationship with you.

My regards,
David Ebube.
da_eb01@yahoo.fr <mailto:da_eb01@yahoo.fr>






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