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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: "gordonfranklin33@gmail.com" <gordonfranklin33@gmail.com>
Reply-To: gordonfranklin001@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 00:47:58 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear

Hi Dear!
My name is Gordon Franklin (Financial Consultant/Advocate); I am in
urgent need of a responsible and reliable person, a business manager
or someone of the rank of authority with good net-worth, credible,
capable and trustworthy enough to be entrusted with receipt of huge
funds in $USD. If you are of the above stated status/quality, I need
your assistance to retrieve my late client's funds worth
$15,000,000.00 USD deposited with a bank. He died with his entire
family in a Plane crash on 31th July 2000, including his next of kin;
leaving nobody for the claim of the fund.
You can confirm the incident with the link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Note that my reason for contacting you is to assist and partner with
me to retrieve this unclaimed fund because the bank has issued me an
official mandate / ultimatum to submit the beneficiary's name for the
claim or they will confiscate the fund and close the account if no
response since the account has been dormant for many years now.
Therefore, I want to recommend/present you as his next of kin to the
bank so that the fund will be transferred into your bank account for
our mutual benefit.
If you are interested in partnering with me in this once in a life
time mutual benefit deal, kindly get back to me urgently with the
information requested below; to enable me acquaint you with detail and
procedure.
Send the following information:
1) Full name:
2) Address:
3) Mobile number/WhatsApp:
4) Occupation/Position:
5) Age:
6) Marital status:
7) Copy of your Int’l passport, National ID Card or Driver’s license:
The fund will be shared 40%/40%; and you will disbursed 15% to
orphanages homes in your country which is will serve as a
coverage/purpose for which the fund will be transferred into your
account/country and 5% will be used to settle any expenses that might
be incurred in the course of the transfer as there will be little
expenses to incur which both of us must be committed to settle, in
order to ensure that the fund is being released and transferred into
your possession without any hitch.
Please reply promptly.
Best Regards,
Mr. Gordon Franklin

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