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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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Fraud email example:

From: Youssouf Kobanne <office----d021@att.net>
Reply-To: youssoufkobanne@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:20:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Very Very Urgent,

Dear Sir,







I am by name Mr Youssouf Kobanne, i am one of the aides to Mr Laurent Gbagbo, the president of Cote D'ivoire,







I am in charge of Finance & protocols in the government of Mr Laurent Gbagbo,the president of Cote D'ivoire,







Sir,you may be
surprised of how i came across your name & contact, It is not far
fetched, to be precise,I got your contact through Plaxo.com,







My reason for
contacting you is very simple, sincere, secret & profit oriented if
you can maintain absolute confidentiality & secret into the whole
arrangement,







You are aware of
the recent and present crises going on in my country Cote D'ivoire
right now because of the post election crisis between Mr Laurent Gbagbo
and Mr Alassane Ouattarra,







THE UNITED
NATIONS(UN), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA(USA), AFRICA UNION(AU)EUROPEAN
UNION(EU) FRANCE OUR COLONIAL MASTERS AND ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST
ARICAN STATES(ECOWAS) HAVE ALL PLACED SANCTIONS ON US(THE GOVERNMENT OF
LAURENT GBAGBO, HIS FAMILY AND HIS LOYALISTS,),







Right now, we cannot travell outside Cote D'ivoire and our funds in various banks had been frozend,







To this end, i am
contacting you so that i will direct you to where you will go and pick
some considerable amount of USD$ been saved by me on bahalf of the
government of Mr Laurent Gbagbo, i will not mention the accurate figure
and the name of the banks where the funds are been kept until i get a
positive response from you and your willingness to go this message for
us,







The money runs into millions of Dollars, you will act as our eyes while going for this mission for us,







It is risk free
business, the only impedement here is our inability to travel outside
our country to collect the funds from(The banks) where it is been
deposited/kept,







I used a different
name to save the funds there, this is to ensure that people'e eyes are
not on the funds, i did it that way in order not to raise eye brows, i
did not use my name or any of the names of the serving personells in
the government of Mr Laurent Gbagbo to save the money because of
security reasons and coupled with our positions in government,







Declare your
interest to this business to me by a return mail & let us follow
this business because it is truth that i am telling you and you will
see everything to be truth very soon, don't underate/commonise this
business please, this is good business for us, so put good interest on
it please,



Please sir,
maintain adequate secrecy & confidentiality this business deserves,
& ask question(s) where you deems necessary.







Don't let anybody
know about this deal (This is top secret please) & you should
maintain its secrecy & confidentiality it deserves.& ask me
question where you are not clear,







I will mention
where the funds is been kept in the bank in Europe and direct you to
where and how you will go and collect it after hearing from you,







Contact me through my email address at (youssoufkobanne@yahoo.com)







Mr Youssouf Kobanne

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