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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: "Manager E.Walker" <edwardwalker321@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 10:46:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Attention Needed

Good day,

I am Mr.Edward Walker, account manager to our late cleint who was a contractor in South Africa and share thesame last surname with you. On the 2nd of May 2009, my client, was involved in a boat accident in Durban during a boat cruise with some of his friend. He had earlier lost his wife during child birth and never remarried .Since then I have made several enquiries here to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to search through with his name which motivated me to contact you, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund valued at US$14.6Million left behind by my client before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank. The Bank has issued me (as my late client's account manager) a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated.


Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 1 year now, I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing rate and modalities for transfer. I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for claim.

All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please get back to me.

Best regards.

Mr. Edward Walker.
  

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