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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.
  
• 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.
  • joedanielskoffi@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?joe=20koffi?= <joedanielskoffi@yahoo.dk>
Reply-To: jdv1963@msn.com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:11:16 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From engr.joe


Jeg har en ny e-mail-adresse!Nu kan du e-maile mig på: joedanielskoffi@yahoo.dk



From Engr Koffi

Accra-Ghana


Sir,


I am contacting you this day concerning a transaction which I see as

being beneficial to both of us.I am the director of contract award in

the ECOWAS contract commission Ghana.The reason why I am contacting

you now is concerning the transfer of an amount of money from here to

your bank account.This money is $ 5.2 million American dollars that

is floating in the excro account of a paying bank here.


THE SOURCE OF THE MONEY:


In 2000, a local contractor was awarded a contract in the tune of $

25.2 million American dollars and which after two weeks he came back

to us and told us that he cannot finance the contract.We then got a

foreign contractor who we negotiated with and he accepted to do the

contract at $20 million American dollars,he have finalized the

contract in 2003 and have been dully paid/settled leaving this amount

of $5.2 million floating now in the account of the paying bank and

that is why I and the secretary have contacted you to assist us to

receive this money in your account.


If you are interested,you have to contact us immediately through this

email address so that we can give you the full details.


We are waiting for your immediate and positive response.


Thanks.


Engr KOFFI





- joe koffi

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