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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: "Natsuko Yamamoto" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <natsuko-yamamoto@live.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:41:28 -0700
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam,

Dear Sir/Madam,

Good morning, My english speaking not very good, anyway i can write better than to speak.

Let me tell you about myself My name is Natsuko Yamamoto I am 29 years old, writing from Tokyo Japan Shelter home care center. I am single and for years before work as the general caretaker to Mr. Masamichi Kazama, a Japanese banker and real estate developer living in Fukushima Japan but died recently during the earthquake tsunami disaster in Fukushima Japan.

As the closest person work for him before the tsunami which took his life, i was recently contacted by an attorney because he know me before as the next close person to late Mr. Kazama.

The attorney is a very nice man work under United nations and also represent my late boss charity to your country before his death.
He mentioned to me about late Mr. Kazama's US$5,600,000.00 deposit fund asset in Thailand which he inform me and i want you to help stand as the next person for the claim. According to what he asked me about who may stand next to release the fund on my behalf so i thought very well and i now deceide to ask you to help me as the next person because the attorney have asked me but i did not yet give him any answer. Can you please reply back to me so i can explain the details to you.

Here is very dificult, everybody lost all they have, businesses, huge amount of money, investment, properties and many more.
You can see this

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_earthquake_lost_money

I am waiting to hear from you.

Sincerely,
Natsuko Yamamoto
natsuko-yamamoto@live.com

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