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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • koffi674@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Koffi" <koffi@justice.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: koffi674@yahoo.de
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:36:56 +0100
Subject: urgent

Dear Sir,
My name is Mr. Koffi Abedi, a native of Ghana in Africa currently residing
in The Netherlands for a Senior Management course, at The Hogeschool,
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

I am requesting your assistance in order to redeem an investment made with
the West African Mining Corporation in which I am a senior executive. The
said investment now valued Twenty six million, U.S. Dollars
(U.S.$26, 000,000.00) was purchased by Mr. Alex Alvarez and contracted out to the West African Mining Corporation in September 1977. This redeemable investment interest has now matured and been cleared for disbursement since March of 2004.

Since then there has been an extensive global wide attempt to locate and notify any living relatives of Mr. Alex Alvarez being that he himself died in December of 1987. We have confirmed through three independent search agencies that there are no living relatives in whose favor the investment can be paid.

Being that two senior colleagues and I are working as staffs in the accounts department of the Mining Corporation and West African Reserve Bank, we have
access to all Mr. Alex Alvarez informations , we can claim this money with you. All we need to do is file this claim proclaiming you are the only surviving next of kin and actual beneficiary because of your name match with the late Investor.

These fund can be paid into any designated account which you provide and can be a new bank account specially for this purpose. My proposal to you is that for your assistance you will withhold 30% of the total sum, while ensuring that my partners and I will receive the remaining 70%.

If this proposal is acceptable to you, please contact me through this Email address koffi674@yahoo.de <mailto:koffi674@yahoo.de> with your full name and telephone number. Please treat this with absolute confidentiality and
sincerity.


Thanks and God Bless you.

Koffi Abedi, Esq

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