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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: "SAMUEL AND HELENE BEREWAHL" <shb11@linuxmail.org>
Reply-To: berewahl_s@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 04:20:02 -0500 (ECT)
Subject: Please We Need Your Urgent Assistance



Dear,
Our Greetings to you,

Good Day and God bless you as I introduce myself to you with all faith and hope you will understand us
and not to betray us or let us down at the end.

My name is SAMUEL and my sister's name is HELENE BEREWAHL. We are the children of late CHIEF MAXWELL
BEREWAHL, I am 17 Years old, our father died years ago in our country home town TAIMA,Republic of
Sierra Leone, He was into legal solid minerals, diamonds and gold mining saleing which was under his
positions in government then, and he has succeeded in saving (US$9.500,000.00) Nine Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars, during his Business on legal solid minerals, diamonds and gold
mining selling, After he went on a trip to Republic of Cote D'Ivoire country nearby our country to save
his money for security reasons because of the political problems in our country, as our father return
back to our country Unfortunately he is dead the rebels kills him and burnt our house and I will not
want this money to be kept like that without any investment purpose please we are contacting you with
full trust to assist and help us to transfer this money out from here to your country for investment
purpose hoping that you will not let us down.

After the death of our father, our mother took us to Abidjan Ivory Coast here we are right now and our
mother died here in Ivory Coast in a private hospital because of the injuries she sustained during the
war Now we are alone in a totally strange country without parents at our tender ages.

Before our mother's death she advice us that we should do praying and fasting to find a trust worthy
person who will help us to stand as our late father’s foreign business partner, who would help us to
transfer this money to his account and invest it in a profitable business venture in his country and
also help us to come over to his country and stay with him as his own blood children and continue our
education which terminated because of the war in our country, She told us to do this quickly so that we
can leave Ivory Coast and then settle down in abroad because of the political problems here now in
ivory coast.

Our mother gave us all the vital documents which covers the money in the bank, she told us that our
late father reached an agreement with the bank that this money is for onward transfer to a foreign
account to any of his foreign business partner but our late father did not give or introduce any name
to the bank as his foreign business partner, that is why we are contacting you to help us to stand as
our late father’s foreign business partner so that the bank will transfer this money US$9.500,000.00
million to your account, our father used my name as the only son to deposited the money as next of kin.
Our mother made us to know that this is the reason why we run to this country Ivory Coast, My mother
died after words, May her spirit rest in perfect peace.

We have visited the bank to make inquires on how to transfer this money out from here and we discussed
with the director he assured and promised us to transfer this money to any of my late father's foreign
business partners immediately within 72 working hours as soon as i provide my late fathers foreign
business partner details to the bank he also said that my father did not give or introduce any name to
they bank as his foreign beneficiary that i should submit my late fathers foreign beneficiary details
to the bank, however the manager is very concerned because of our age, I am 17 years while my younger
sister is 15, he also told us that our late father reached an agreement with they bank that the money
is for onward transfer to a foreign account and entered my name as the next of kin, he pleaded that I
should look for any of my late fathers foreign business partners in abroad who will help us to transfer
this money out of here to his account.

We need help from you to help us submit your name to the bank as our fathers foreign business partner
and transfer this money to your account for investment purpose and be sincere to get travailing papers
for us and invert us to your country without cheating us or doing bad to us on my arrival with my
younger sister.

Regarding to what our late mother told us, we are willing to give you 30% of the total money after the
bank transfer this money to your account, and you will use the rest to invest it in good business, I am
interested in any profitable business or commercial venture which you consider very good in your
country or abroad to invest this money, please mail us immediately urgent to know your stands before
looking elsewhere, because you're the first person we are contacting and also send your phone number
as soon as possible for easier communication.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

1. Can you honestly help me as your own person?
2. Can we completely trust you?
3. Hope my percentage offer is good accepted by you?

Please, Treat this email confidential and get back to us as soon as possible.
Please for security reasons reply to our privet EMAIL ADDRESS ( berewahl.s@yahoo.com ) please you can
call us with this number (+225-0869-5944) immediately for more information.

Yours Sincerely,
Samuel and Helene Berewahl.


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