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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: ERIC JOHN <eric_johnm8@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:01:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Attention Urgent


From; Mr Eric John,
19 Paul Croydon CR0 5HE,
London, United Kingdom.


Attention; Please,

I am Mr Eric John Citibank public information assistant director; this is my first email i am contacting you with. the British government has mapped out amount of six billion pounds to campaign on global economic trade liberalization.

random names were drawn from different source countries, which your name were short listed among the seventy eight names for the payment of seven hundred and fifty hundred thousand (750,000.00) British Pounds,

this payment was as a result of poor global trade in-balance from source countries, and to alleviate, improve global trade difficulties.
The requirements from you are, to forward your payment details to the bank managements or come forward for the payment of this fund.

Therefore, you are requested to fill in your in formations for the payment through bank to bank or accreditation of the funds through visa card for universal use.

Fill the in formations below and email me to submit it directly to the bank or i will release the bank contact details;

1]. YOUR NAME [...............

]B]. ADDRESS [.................]

C]. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER [.............

]D]. OCCUPATION [.................

]E]. AGE [........................]

Thank you,

Mr Eric John.




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