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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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Fraud email example:

From: MARK KOFFi <markkoffione@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 08:55:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT/ CALL ME


ATTN: GONTRODHA EDMUNDS

FROM: MARK KOFFI

TEL: 27 73 643 6161

Thank you very much for your email you sent to my mother and I am the son of MRS . MONICA KOFFI and my mother told me to send this email to you and you can always reply us through yahoo address which we have used to send you this email.

After I received your email and I have explained the content to my mother and she was very happy to hear from you me and my mother are very happy to invest the money under your trading company so that we can be partner in your company if only you will be sincere to us in this transaction and bear in mind that my mother and you will sign a contract agreement between you and him that we enable us to see that the money will be safe in youre hand.

Moreover, you have to open account in your own name where the money will be deposited under your name before onward transferred into your personal/ company account in your country because as soon as you open I will proceed to the security company to clear the fund from them and I will proceed by depositing the money in your south africa account that is all the informations that the banker have given to us since an asylum seeker cannot be able to open an account here in south africa and the bank manager name : NOBLE MAKATHAINI TEL: 27 78 351 1686 AND FAX : 27 11 507 66 54 or if you need their email I will ask for that BANK NAME: ABSA BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Finally, bear in mind that we are not using a passport here because you are only using an asylum documents and if you need that kindly inform us to enable us to proceed in this transaction and make sure that you calkl my son and your passport copy is needed so that the lwayer will use that to prepare an agreement between you and my mother.

As soon as you open the account and the will be depositing on it and I will send you all the necessary documents that back up this transaction through the security company such as

1: CERTIFICATE OF LODGE

2: CERTIFICATE OF PROOF

3: AGREEMENT BETWEEN BOTH PARTIES

4: CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP

5: PRO FORMA INVOICE

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR FROM YOU SOONEST

BEST REGARDS

MR. MARK KOFFI


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