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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: Samantha Cools <samantha.cools@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear we lost our parents here in United Kingdom.


Dear we lost our parents here in United Kingdom.
 
Please we are contacting you in order to let you know our desires to invest our money with you in your country. I’m 20 years old with my younger brother who is 16 years old. We lost our parents here in United Kingdom. We have an inheritance from our late parents, our late parents were very wealthy farmers on Cocoa and Banana merchant when they were alive. After the death of our late father long years ago, my late mother was controlling his business untill she was poisoned by her business associates which she suffered and died.
 
Before the death of our late mother on May 10th 2010, in a private hospital here in United Kingdom where she was admitted. She secretly called me on her bed side and disclosed to me that she has the sum of ($14.7 Fourteen Million Seven Hundred US dollars) she left in suspense account in one of the bank here in England United Kingdom, that It was the money she intended to transfer for investment before her sudden death. She also instructed me that I should seek for a foreign partner in any country of my choice who will assist me transfer this money into good account where the money will be save and invested wisely but because of high rate of taxes in investment in England, that is why I and my younger brother decided to contact you to assist us transfer the money to your Country where it will be save for investment. We therefore like you to help us in these areas…
 
1. To provide a safe bank account where the money will be transferred into for investment and to help us look for a very good lucreative business in your country where we can invest the money.
 
2. To serve as a guardian to this money since I’m only 20 years old and my brother is still young to handle this kind of transaction.
 
3. To make arrangement for me and my brother to come over to your Country to further our education and to secure a resident permit for us in your Country.
 
We have decided to offer you 15% of the total amount for your willingness and interested to assist us invest with the money in your country without any delay. Please kindly response to us after reading our proposal for more clarification through our email address. Please immediately you receive this messag, try your possible best to send us your full personal information for further discussion about the fund transfer.
 
Thanks and ramain blessed in the lord
 
Regards,
Miss. Samantha Cools.



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