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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Chambersbase Legal Practitioners <chambersbase@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:22:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT


Attn Client,
This is to indicate that we have applied for the procurement of the said legal certificates in your name.

I called the telephone numbers which you supplied to me but all effort i made to get in touch with you proves abortive,the telephone numbers was invalid.You should send to me your direct telephone numbers to enable me call you.

You are required to send down the fee as directed to empower this Honorable chambers collect the said legal certificates and submit on your behalf to credit bank Benin to facilitate the release of your funds directly to your chosen bank account where you wished to receive the funds.

Send down the fee as directed.

Thanks

Hon.Dr Rotomi Williams Esq.
Head of chambers base and co
We put the Corpus in Heabus Corpus.

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