419 scam: Edet Oulu <sonita_hen03@yahoo.co.jp> Greetings

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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: Edet Oulu <sonita_hen03@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Edet Oulu <edetoulu1980@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:37:16 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings

Greetings,

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 on this site below

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 hereIf you are willing to assist me, I will give you more detail

Ms. Edet Oulu.

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