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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:38:00 +0800
Subject: Dear brother




Dear Friend,

I am by name Mr Youssouf Kobanne, i am one of the aides to Mr Laurent
Gbagbo, the immediate ousted president of IVORY COAST, I am in charge of
Finance & protocols in the government of Mr Laurent Gbagbo,the president of
IVORY COAST,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 IVORY COAST
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY,

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 crises went in my country IVORY
COAST 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 IVORY COAST and our funds/Money in
various SECURITY AND FINANCIAL COMPANIES had been frozen,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
SECURITY AND FINANCIAL COMPANIES 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( SECURITY AND
FINANCIAL COMPANIES ) 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 security & 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 SECURITY AND
FINANCIAL COMPANIES in WEST AFRICA COUNTRY and direct you to where and how you
will go and collect it after hearing from you,

To enable me to reply you immediately please Contact me through my private
email address at


Yours Faithful

Mr Youssouf Kobanne
Email: Kobanne.youssouf@outlook.com

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