419 scam: "From Miss.Edet Oulu" <sopsystem01@yahoo.co.jp> Dearest,

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "From Miss.Edet Oulu" <sopsystem01@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: "From Miss.Edet Oulu" <edetoulu@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 21:36:10 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dearest,

Dearest,

My name is Edet Oulu 21 years old female from the Republic of Kenya, the daughter of Late Mr. John
Paul Oulu. My late father was a Kenyan lawyer who was the coordinator of the
Oscar aid Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic Kenya (OFFLACK). My Father and his
associate Mr. Oscar Kamau Kingara were brutally shot dead on Thursday 8Th March
2009.You can read about the killing of my father and his lawyer associate.

I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment
I am receiving from my step mother since the death of my father. She planned to
take away all my late father's treasury and properties from me, since I am not
her biological child. She never knew
that I have the deposit document of the (£ 6 Million) Great Britain Pounds that
my father deposited with a finance firm in London with my name as the next of
Kin, this is because my father showed me the document of the fund and told me
that since my mother is not alive, that this fund is for my future, and that
being a human right activist anything can happen to him anytime,

Presently I ran to Bouake
city in Ivory Coast of which
I am staying in a church Mission
here if you are willing to assist me, I will give you more detail

With love,
Miss.Edet Oulu

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