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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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• 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.
  • kofijohnson03@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "johnson kofi" <johnson.kofi@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnsonkofi01@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:26:33 +0100
Subject: From: Mr. Kofi Johnson...

From: Mr. Kofi Johnson.
The Manager International
Commercial Bank Ghana
First Light Branch
Accra, Ghana.
 
Attn: Sir,

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly Confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that this is real and genuine.

My Name is Mr. Kofi Johnson. I am the manager of the international commercial bank Ghana, first light branch. I am a Ghanaian married with two kids.
 
I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of us$2,500.000.00.This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as profit during the last year. I have already submitted an approved end of the year report for the year 2004 to my head office here in Accra and they will never know of this excess.
 
I have since then, placed this amount of us$2,500.000.00 on a suspense account without a beneficiary.
 
As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account.
 
I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund.
 
If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response.
Please respond to this e-mail address: kofijohnson03@yahoo.com
 
With Regards,
Mr. Kofi Johnson.

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