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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: "sule collins" <sule_collins18@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sule_collins2005@fastermail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:01:27 +0000
Subject: Greetings :

PLEASE REPLY THROUGH THIS EMAIL mrsule@o2.pl

Greetings :

You may be surprised to receive my
letter, however, I got your contact from the Chamber
of Commerce and Trade. I have decided to contact you
for confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business.

My name is SULE COLLINS, I was a Personal Assistant to
the Late Congo President, LAURENT KABILA, who was
assasinated in February and my aim of writing to you
is because of the need for a trusted and honest
person, who I can entrust the sum of US$12,800,000
(Twelve million, eight hundred thousand USDollars).
Source of the money:

I and the late president secured
this money in a security firm in Accra Ghana, in my name
before his death. Now that he is late, I want to
transfer the money out of Africa, for investment in
your country,

I can not travel out o f where I am on
asylum, hence I am asking for your assistance to have
this money in your care pending when I will secure
travel documents to come over to your country.If you
accept this offer we shall share the money as follows:
for you, 25%, 75% for me. I have all the title documents to
the fund which I can transfer to you to enable you
have assess to it. Be assured that is risk-free and
legitimate.

Please advise me on your position by this e-mail
mrsule@o2.pl

immedaitely, Please I await your prompt reply.
MR SULE COLLINS


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