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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: "Mrs. Sayuri Yoshiko" <lam754780@gmail.com>
Reply-To: who56donprince@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:35:11 +0200
Subject: From Mrs. Sayuri Yoshiko

Good day

Greetings to you in the name of our heavenly God. This mail might come
to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it could come into
your mind, but please, consider it as a Divine Wish of God and accept
it with a deep sense of humility. My Name is Mrs Sayuri Yoshiko. I
escaped tsunami disaster some time ago which affected my spinal cord,
my ear drum and claim my entire family, my husband and two sons. It
might shock you to know, I was eventually disabled as a result of
catastrophe that struck me. Perhaps I’m now on a wheelchair after all
form of treatment and to no avail. Because of my present condition I
finally decided to give a better life to the poor in the society,
since it has determine medically that I have only about a few months
to live, according to medical experts.

It is my legacy to build charity organizations for the less privilege
since my health has finally confirmed deteriorated. In my present
condition this project cannot be executed by me alone due to my
ailment, so therefore I need your candid voluntarily support to
execute the project to make this dream a reality. I have decided to
invest my $20,000,000 USD to help the less privileged, therefore you are
chosen from my heart to help receive the funds from where it was kept
secretly to build charity organizations for the less privilege to have
some better life. You will be rewarded with 20% from the total sum for
fronting the project for me.

Please I will appreciate if you can indicate interest to help
actualize this last dream. Therefore also include your contact
telephone/fax numbers, including personal details to be forwarded to my
representative who is correctly taking care of the funds where its deposited
As i earlier told you, my ailment will not permit me to participate on the
project, that's the reason why, i am dedicating you to my representative
who will oversea the transaction from the start to the end.

He will also provide you all the necessary documents that will enable
you claim the funds.

Looking forward hearing from you soon.

Remain blessed,
Mrs. Sayuri Yoshiko

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