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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: "David Campbell" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dnydavid101@yahoo.cn>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:21:49 +0100
Subject: Dear Partner.

Dear Partner,


My name is Mr. David Campbell, I work in a managerial position in a well
respected security company, with the head office here in Ghana West Africa.
I am contacting you because of an urgent business transaction that I want
to do with a trusted foreigner, I got your email contact during my
search on the internet. On the 25th of November 2005, the sum of ($6.5 Million U.S Dollars) was
deposited with my company, disguised as a family heirloom in a two trunk
boxes, this is not the only time that corrupt government officials uses the
services of my company to ship their ill gotten wealth abroad or secure it
for future use. I took exceptional note of this deposit because it was
large and as the man at the helm of affairs then, I got to know the man
behind the deposit, Late President Gnassingbe Eyadema who died on February 2006.The reason for my contacting you is that I checked and found out that the
deposit is still intact and nobody has asked for it, and I know that
nobody will ever ask for it, I am the only living soul who knows the true identity
of the depositor, no other person can retrieve the deposit except the
person can produce the codes combination which was given to the depositor,
the way we operate is that if the depositor wants to retrieve his deposit,
he will instruct the company in writing and give his codes and if the
manager confirms the code, the deposit will be released at once to the
person with proof of the deposit information.
If you accept to work with me, I will give you the instruction letter to
send to my company and also when the company asks for the codes, I will
give them to you. Please if you are not interested in this business let me
know so that I can contact someone else.
Please send your response with any delay.

My Best Regards.




Mr. David Campbell.


Dnydavid101@yahoo.cn


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