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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: "Miss Lee Akihiro" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <missleeakihiro@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:38:46 -0000
Subject: Please I Need Your Urgent Help, God Bless You

Greetings Sir/Madam,

How are you today? I hope you are doing fine. Am sorry to bother you with this letter in your mailbox, please delete after reading if you are not interested in helping me. Please permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you after much praying and consideration when I am searching for a reliable trust worthy and God fearing partner to work with me. I was convinced and decided to contact you as the right person for my assistance with believe that you will never disappoint me in any way.

My name is Miss. Lee Akihiro from north of Tokyo in Japan, my father?s name is Mr. Masaki Akihiro and my mother?s name is Mrs. Lian Kii Akihiro. I was born on February 25 1993 in my country Tokyo Japan. I am young and beautiful girl, slender woman, black hair and just 21 years going to 22 soon. I came to Brazil with my father three years ago and my father died on March 15 2011 here in Sao Paulo after receiving the news of the March 11, 2011 earthquake of magnitude 8.9 to 9 mega thrust northeast coast of Japan because he was suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD). (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_japan.html )

The earthquake destroyed the company of my father in Sendai Miyagi, northeast Japan, my mother and my other family relatives also died in the earthquake. Now I'm a refugee and am also doing a small job as a cleaner at a hospital here in Sao Paulo since the death of my late parents just to help myself, I cannot go back to Japan because I have no family or relatives again in Japan.

My late father made a fixed deposit of ($15 Million) at a bank here in Brazil for me as his only child, the money was deposited in (fixed deposit) for Ten (10) years based on the documents the bank issued to my father on the day of deposit with the agreement he made with the bank, my father loved me very much.

I am now seeking for your assistance to help me transfer this money out from Brazil to your country and also help me invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country while I continue my education which is very important to me because this is my only hope in life. I am willing to offer you 30% of the total money if you can help me out from my present situation please.

I have every document the bank issued to my father on the day of deposit, please consider this and get back to me as soon as possible. Immediately I confirm your willingness, I will give you more relevant details about this transaction with bank contact for you to contact them and confirm the existence of this fund as well because seeing is believing. Kindly send me your Full names and Mobile Number to my private Email: missleeakihiro@hotmail.com

Please reply,
Thanks and God bless you,
Sincerely Yours,
Miss. Lee Akihiro

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