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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: LUS Yannis <mtiwaku@gmail.com>
Reply-To: lus_yannis@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 04:27:37 +0000
Subject: Re: Your Reply Pls


Hello
Please I decided to Contact you for personal plights something else.
Of course the subject might appear sudden but consider it with a deep sense
of humility.
I lost my Dad back in the middle of September 2014, I am alone presently,
my Father was formal leader to our community for some years before I was
born I was the only son as my mother was no longer with my Dad when I was 7
years, due to this separation my Mum Did never knew my father fortunes and
other aspect of father’s life though I lost my Mum on 28th of February 2012.
Unfortunately my father willed some amount of money to me and this money
was been kept in a bank.
These funds were annually paid to my father's account from various
communities because there were some companies that usually cooperate by
making curtains payment for communities as means of helping youths that
lacks employed among these companies was Shell petroleum development
Company Mobil and Agip respectively.
Most of these savings that my father wills were from the annual revenues
for compensation of youths and community developments under my father
leadership so they were profits-saving by my father.
Following my father death in September of 2014, there was problems that had
being recently taken place and because of these problems I’d like to
relocate to your country which I yearn to stays.
There were recent problems and as noted; it's being heavy arguments to some
matters much like my father formal wooding factory, lands, housing estates
and etc.
These problems happens because there was no proper written wills by my Dad
respecting these other properties as to whom should inherited them from the
family.
Really the problems are enormous and I lose one of my uncle a week after my
father’s Death due to fighting between members.
As you can see I needed yours assistance because I wanted to relocation and
also transfer the fund to your country, the total was four million United
state Dollars and it's my personal future, my savings by my late father,
also, I wishes to protect it elsewhere because of the above reasons here.
Please I want you to reply shortly.
Tanks

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