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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: "John Knowles & Consults" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnknowles1960@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:40:14 -0700
Subject: Please Read : We Are Very Worried

Hello,

I hope that this correspondence is received with the
urgency and expediency required.

It has come to the notice of the Board of Trustees of
the Federal Reserve here in Washington, D.C. that
your present inheritance claims application being handled by the Remitting Offices outside of the USA is experiencing some man made irregularities.

To this effect, it has become necessary
for the Board of Trustees to assign trained Fund Transfer Specialists from the United States to resolve and regularize your fund release with immediate effect without needing to pay any further charges out of pocket.

We at John Knowles & Consults have been duly consulted by the Trustees in Washington. We have been fully informed about how the staff of the fund remitting country has been taking advantage of you by telling you to pay unnecessarily exorbitant charges which will only make your fund payment a long drawn out process.

Due to this development, we have been assigned to step into the immediate processing of your fund transfer to enable your funds to be transferred to you within the shortest possible time. To implement this, you are to get back to us immediately without needing to pay all the huge sums of monies that are being demanded from you by the previous handlers at the remitting office.

All processes to have your funds paid to you immediately through the Liaison Office in New York
have been initiated to cut out unnecessary costs.

You are advised to treat this communication with the urgency and seriousness required as the Board of Trustees has mandated us to resolve this fund payment within the next three working days independent of the Remitting Offices outside the US.

Furthermore, you are hereby advised to pay no further fees or charges to these offices as they shall no longer be handling your application.

We shall await your immediate correspondence with your direct telephone numbers to my private email address at ( john.knowles1960@gmail.com ) for re-confirmation so that we may conclude your payment immediately.


Yours Sincerely,
John Knowles.
John Knowles & Consults.

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