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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: "Miss. Sarah Ibrahim" <christymbah97@gmail.com>
Reply-To: sarahangbozan@gmx.com
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:47:53 -0700
Subject: Seriously waiting for your reply,

My Dearest,

Complement of the day to you, please pardon me if I interfere into
your privacy, my name is Sarah Ibrahim Coulibaly,24 years old, I am
the daughter of Late Chief Sergeant, Ibrahim Coulibaly, From ABIDJAN,
My late father was an Ivory Coast's best-known militia leaders, He
died on the Thursday 28 April 2011 following a fight with the FRCI,
Republican Forces of Ivory Coast. You can read more about my father in
the link below.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/28/ivory-coast-renegade-warlord-ibrahim-coulibaly


In my culture, when a man dies,if he does not have a male child, the
brothers will share his properties leaving the wife and the daughters
empty handed. That is the case with me now.

After the burial of my father, my uncles conspired and sold all my
father’s properties to a Chinese Expatriate and left nothing for me.
On a faithful morning I opened one of my father's briefcases and found
out that he had deposited a huge amount of money in one of the banks
in Burkina Faso with my name as the next of kin.

I travelled to Burkina Faso to with-draw the money in order to take
care of myself and pay for my school fees with other bills.

I was shocked when the Bank Manager explained to me that I will not be
able to with-draw from the deposited money because my late father had
put a clause on the WILL & TESTAMENT, which he used in depositing the
fund with them.

saying that before I will be given access to the funds, I will either
have to be 30 years old or if only I get married before the age of
30,in which case, present foreign partner that will be legible to
claim the money on my behalf by standing in as my foreign Trustee to
claim the deposited fund on my behalf.

I am contacting you for you to stand as my foreign partner Trustee to
enable the bank transfer the funds into your bank account in your
country and help me by recommending a nice University in your country
so that I can complete my studies.

More details will be sent to you as soon as you accept my mail.

Seriously waiting for your reply.

Miss. Sarah Ibrahim Coulibaly

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