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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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 next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • james.ofori5@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Mr.=20James=20Ofori?=" <james.ofori5@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: james.ofori1@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:14:20 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Business Enquiry From Mr. James


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: james.ofori5@yahoo.de

Dear Friend,



I am Mr.James Ofori, credit officer of the International Commercial Bank Ghana. I have a concealed business suggestion for you.Before the death of the NIGERIA FIRST LADY Chief Mrs Stella Obasanjo. She was our client who made a numbered fixed deposit for two years in International Commercial Bank Ghana, with a value of (US$25.55M) Twenty-Five million, Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars. Upon maturity several notice was sent to her, even before her death,and we got no response from her.



I later find out that she kept these funds outside NIGERIA for personal keeps for the future which is a common thing amongst NIGERIA LEADERS of the past. After further investigation it was also discovered that the late NIGERIA FIRST LADY,Chief Mrs Stella Obasanjo did not declare any next of kin in her official papers including the paper work of her bank deposit. She also confided in me the last time she was at my office that no one outside my bank staff, i mean apart from those you had the opportunity to know about her deposit in my bank, knew of her funds deposit. So, Twenty-Five million, Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it.



Please,verify this claim with the link below:



http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/obasanjo.obituary/index.html http://news.bbc.couk/2/hi/africa/4368806.stm



What bothers me most is that, according to the laws of my country at a short time from now, the funds will revert to the ownership of the REPUBLIC OF GHANA GOVERNMENT if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to THE NIGERIA FIRST LADY, CHIEF MRS STELLA OBASANJO so that you will be able to receive these funds.I have everything it takes to put this opportunity to life, if you oblige to my business proposition.



I wait your timely response.



Respectfully,

James Ofori.

+233-244-514523

- Mr. James Ofori

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