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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: "Francisco Jurado" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <franjurado@gmx.es>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 00:45:15 -0700
Subject: Urgent message

Dear Sir,
 
How are you doing today, I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly
confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that all will be well. Let me start by introducing
myself. I am Francisco Jurado, a  Chartered Accountant and a personal Account Officer  to Late Mrs.Justyna Johnson, herein referred to as my late client. This email
might come as a surprise to you, Since there was no previous
correspondence between us. My purpose of contacting you is for you to
help secure the funds left behind by my late client, to avoid it being
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank in Spain where this
fund valued € 8,500,000.00 (Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros) was deposited by my client before her death.
 
The Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin or the
account will be declared unserviceable and the fund diverted to the
Bank treasury, So far all my efforts to get hold of someone related to
her has proved abortive. I am actually asking for your consent to
present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/beneficiary of my late
client's fund, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you
(bearing in mind that Next of Kinship is not limited to relations of the
deceased, nor is it confined to the circuit of parental relationship,
rather it is by choice of the benefactor as regards to whom she wish
to WILL it to either formally by write up, or informally by secret
information disclosure to beneficiary be him/her a business partner,
relation, kinsmen, friend or well wisher.
 
I shall provide all the documents to back up the claim as my client's
Next of Kin. All I require is your honest cooperation and commitments
to enable us achieve this transaction. I wish to point out that I want
10% of this money to be shared among charity Organizations, while the
remaining 90% would be shared equally between us. This transaction is
entirely risk free. I will use my position as the client's Account Officer  to
guarantee the successful execution of this transaction.
 
I will provide you with details and relevant documents that will help
you understand this transaction.
 
Warm regards,
 
Francisco Jurado
Account Officer, LaCaixa.
Tel: +34 698 449 262
Fax: +34 953 825 396
Email: franjurado@gmx.es
C/ Segre, 39 PL 4,28004
Madrid- Spain

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