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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: "julia yukov" (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:08:45 +0800
Subject: please read

Dear Respectful,

Good day, I know that this email will come to you as a surprise because you don't know me and i don't know you too. My name is Julia Yukov,i am 19 years old and an orphan. My late father died in auto crash in December 2005.
My late father was kill in a suspected road accident but the police reported that my late father was drunk and full of alcohol before his death. However, my late father was a business man who lived IN Asia before coming back to my country, Latvia. Before the death of my father,He told me that He deposited the sum of US$5.000,000:00 {five Million,united states dollars only) with a bank in china in the year 1999.

I have contacted the Bank and they told me that i am free to come and claim the money as the only daugther of my late father as i have the deposite secret Code my father gave me . Now,i am presently living with my uncle who is taking care of my school and my uncle is very wicked to me.

He has seized all my late father's properties and sold them away without showing any concern to me. I don't want him to know about the US$5.000,000:00 with the Bank that is why i am contacting you to assist Me so that i can instruct the Bank to transfer the money to you to enable me come to meet you in your country.

My main reason of contacting you is because i don't want my uncle to know about the money because He may claim it and seize the money and i will not get anything. I am assuring you that this fund belong's to my late Father and it is safe, risk free and legal. the deposit is with the bank.

Please Let me know if you are willing to assist me on this so that i can give you the detail information of the bank and we can reach and agreement on what will be your share for assisting me

If you agree to assist me please reply me with your

Name:.............................................

Address & Country.................................

Phone Number:.....................................

Occupation:.......................................

Age:..............................................


I will ever live to cherish and honour this day that you made a decision that will put an everlasting smile on my face, Thank you very much for your reply


God bless
Julia Yukov
13c Gogola Street,
Riga, LV-1743 Latvia
juliayukov@gmail.com

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