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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: "Shanka Abel" <abelshanka01@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: abelshnk01@yahoo.com.vn
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:47:35 +0000
Subject: Dear Christian,call me on tel +228 921 4332 asap.

The Desk of Shanka Abel.
North Atlantic Securities Sarl,
Lome Togo.
West Africa.
Tell:+228 921 4332.

Dear Christian,

Pardon my unsolicitation as this may look strange to you,please if this message is recieved in error,do not take action please.Do not take action if you are incapable of handling a transaction of this magnitude and inability of the requirements needed to champion it.

I am Mr Shanka Abel, Regional Director North Atlantic Securities Sarl with regional Office here in Lome-Togo West Africa. This company is a security and finance firm which handles persons, families and companies precious metals such as Gold, Precious stones, diamond and also provide savings and house loans to persons, families and companies.

We had a citizen of your country who has the same nationality with you who deposited eighteen million six hundred thousand united states dollars (US$18.6million) with our Company.

This client Eventually,was a victim of January 31st 2000 air disaster with Alaskan Airlines Flight 261 which occurred in mexico but since then we have not heard anybody coming for the claim of this fund as his next of kin.

I have monitored closely this situation with my position in the Company over the years and hence nobody has showed up as his next of kin since then, I have removed the file to my private vault.

I now solicit for your partnership to present you as the next of kin to the customer as every other arrangement has been concluded by myself and I am only waiting for a foreigner to enable me move the fund to his designated foreign bank account in his country.

This does not have any risk attached to it as all the internal documentations will be handled by my desk. I therefore request you to confirm your interest by a phone call on tel +228 921 4332 ,provide me with your identities, say your international passport and drivers license to enable me disclose to you the data's and way forward but do not forget to keep top secret so that we can achieve this aim without eyebrows raised from any where.

Your interest will be negotiable before we commence the operation.I look forward to hearing from you immediately you recieve this proposition. Reply me via abelshnk01@yahoo.com.vn



Best Regards,
Shanka Abel.
Regional Director,
NASS.


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