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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: Julius Philip <juliusphilip046@outlook.com>
Reply-To: Julius Philip <juliusphilip046@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:27:53 +0900 (JST)
Subject: RE: Hello Friend,


Hello Friend,

My name is Julius Philip, 34 years old from Alabama, a US army currently stationed in Syria for
war
against terrorism. I am contacting you based on the confidence which i
have seen in you. Few weeks ago, while
curbing a village in allepo of terrorist hideouts, I and my fellow
colleague found a metal sealed box containing a huge amount in the
value of $14,600.000.00 USD. This money is belived to be part of the
funds embezzled by the syrian authority or fleeing rebels from that
region.

I need your help in confidence to help me secure this
funds in your custody and open a bank
account to deposit the funds in
your country, then once my service is completed here in the next 3
years, I would relocate to your country to meet
you in person and share the funds 70-30% each. I have concluded with an
elite troops who have agreed to help cross the box to turkey and thereby
deposit the box to a security company there. Few days ago, I have
confirmed that the elite troops has deposited the box successfully at
security firm in Ankara in the name of a general named Ahmet Mereket.

I
need your consent over this very important and confidential issue. I
wouldn't want to lose such huge amount which i know i coudn't acquire in
my life time as a soldier. I wait for your urgent response to provide
you with further details.

Thank you. Yours Faithfully

Julius Philip

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