419 scam: "Danilo Yakiv" <trevorowph1@gmail.com> ...need of your help !

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- trevorowph@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Danilo Yakiv" <trevorowph1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: trevorowph@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 07:34:54 -0500
Subject: ...need of your help !

I need your urgent help,

I am Danilo Yakiv. An aid to the Ukrainian ex-MP Igor Kotvitsky. It it no more a news what the Russians led government of Putin visited Ukraine with war and

devastation. We have lost our homes, infrastructures, economy and above all, our lives. Every known Ukrainian business person and millionaire are finding a

way to stash out his wealth out of the country.

I accompanied the ex-MP Igor Kotvitsky's wife to Hungary by the instruction of my principal Igor Kotvitsky.At the border post/crossing, we were halted and

our luggage searched.A huffing amount of US$55,000,000.00 (Fifty five million US dollars) was found on the trunk of boxes numbering 12 that we were

conveying to Hungary for safety. Below is the news and publication.

https://radaronline.com/p/wife-parliament-member-escaping-ukraine-28-million/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10637997/Ukrainian-tycoons-wife-carried-22-million-cash-refugee-border-crossing-EU.html

The authority confiscated it and declared to the press only $US28,000,000.00 (Twenty eight million US dollars) and some euros.She was arrested, but i was

lucky to have disappeared with some of the luggage because we entered differently and was attended by different custom officers.

I sorted myself out by giving out half of my luggage to the officer in compensation to help me to get into the town with my own share of it. He assisted to

lodge mine in a cargo company and we parted ways.There are others and many other items i will not mention here until you have handled this very one

successfully. I am now going through immigration protocol as a refugee and wants you to assist me to receive this money in your country. I will be willing

to part 40% of the total amount to you while i invest my part in your country.

This requires urgent attention because i do not know what could happen to it tomorrow if it did not leave this country immediately. Please contact me with

the email address below for further explanation and the location of the boxes.

Reply me with this email as he is the one assisting me with me many problems.

In need of your help.
Danilo Yakiv.
trevorowph@gmail.com

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