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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: "Young Odede" <odedeyoung@odedeyoung.com>
Reply-To: young_odede01@nyc.com
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 02:53:18 +0000
Subject: From:Mr.Young Odede.

I am Mr.Young Odede,the Auditor of Euro Millions Lottery agency.I will need
your kind assistance in securing some unclaimed funds won by some winners
of the last year's draw. As the custom of the lottery agency, if funds are
not claimed before the first 180 days, they will end up returned to the
agency's treasury. Currently there are funds worth over £3 million pounds
which needs to be claimed before the next 14 working days or end up being
sent back to the agency's treasury.

If you are interested in helping me get those funds overseas for us to use
please send me your contact informations including your phone and fax number
so i could forward you as the winner of the unclaimed funds. I have all the
needed informations to help you claim the prize.
I am willing to give you 30% of the £3 million pounds while i take the
remaining 70%. For more information about the unclaimed prizes, visit our
website at:
http://www.dollarluck.com/uklottery/default.
for more details.

Thanking you in anticpation of your kind consideration.

Yours Truely,
Mr.Young Odede.


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