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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "j'ai une nouvelle adresse mail" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • simonkossi20002002@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Mr.=20Simon=20Collins=20Koffi=20Esq,?=" <simonkossi20002002@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mycompanyofficeesq@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:50:15 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM BARRISTER SIMON COLLINS KOFFI (ESQ)


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : simonkossi20002002@yahoo.fr

FROM BARRISTER SIMON COLLINS KOFFI (ESQ)

COLLINS'S CHAMBER LOME TOGO

LOME TOGO WEST AFRICA.

RUE 52 PISIMOULA,



Attention:



I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this matter. Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr. Simon Collins Koffi Esq, the Attorney to Engr.P.C.Close (Sir) a contractor with the Federal Government of Lome-Togo, until his death last two years ago in political crisis in Abidjan capital of Cote d'Ivoire,He Banked with Union Togolese De Banque.U.T.B,Lome-Togo and had a closing balance as at the end of September, 2002 worth US$10.5M(Ten Million Five United Thousand U.S Dollars).



The financial firm now expects the Next of Kin to come forward as Beneficiary. Efforts have been made by the Union Togolese De Bank of Loma Togo to get in touch with any of the Deceased Family Relatives, but they have met with no success.



As the deceased being a foreigner, that was why I decided to contact you so that you can put claim on this fund Now the management under the influence of the bank Chairman and Members of the Board of directors, that arrangement has been made for the fund to be declared Unclaimed In order to avert this negative development, it is my duty to contact you so that you can stand as the next of kin to his properties. All documents and proof to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out by me for this claim. I have secured from the probate an order of Mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that this claim is 100% risk free.



Now it is left for you to decry on what you will give me as my percentage for assisting you in this claim. I hope to hear from you soon I want to let you know that this transaction have to be done legitimately and confidential as I don’t want any one to know that you are not the right applicant. as soon as I hear from you I shall send to you application form for you to fill and send to the bank for approval of this fund,



Waiting to hear from you soonest.



Yours Sincerely,


Mr. Simon Collins Koffi Esq.

- Mr. Simon Collins Koffi Esq,

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