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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: <hanbal09161718@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 01:39:31 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Can you be our trustee?

From Hanbal Toure
Email:hanbal7777a@yahoo.fr

Tel:0022509275229

Dear ,
This is to inform you that I am really looking for a trust and reliable worthy person that will be of an assistance to manage our family inheritance, i am Hanbal and my junior sister, Amina of the family of late Chief Toure Nabel of Mende District, Sierra Leone.

Our late father was a group Director in a Mining Corporation in Freetown. Sierra Leone also owns a mining field within our district region, during the civil war between the rebel forces of Major John Paul Koromah and a forces loyal to President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, my late father was brutally
assasinated including my mother by the rebel forces, furtunately, my father had already evacauted me and my sister to the neigbouring country, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, with the proof documents in respect of the money he deposited in Europe, in the sum of US$8.5 Million, through a diplomatic
coverage for a safe keeping.

We are writing you in confidence to seek your full cooperation to stand as our family trustee and my late father foreign associates for us to claim this money under diplomatic coverage in Europe, for your kind assitance, we agreed to compensate you with 15% percent of the total sum after we
have successfully claimed the money and are in your custody. I and my sister wants to relocate from Cote D' Ivoire to join you in your country so that we can further our education there.

From this money, part will be use to establish a foundation for charity work, it has been my late father dream and vision, part will be put on a lucrative investment entity both in your country and you will be incharge to manage the proposed business entities.

I and my sister are in a strange country, suffering without anybody to care
for us. We are like refugees and orphans; our only hope now lies on our family inherantce (money) Please remember that a lot of trust and
confidentiality has been reposed on you as our family trustee, we firmly believe you will not betray this trust.

We have met with our close family friend here, a lawyer whom has been of immense assistance to us here and we will like to instroduce you to him that will be of assitance on the legal aspect of this transaction in Europe to back you up..

Please kindly indicate your interest to me only via our private email as stated herewith. email: hanbal7777a@yahoo.fr

Hanbel and Amina






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