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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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• 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.
  • prince_koffi006@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: prince koffi <prince_koffi008@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:25:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From Prince Koffi


NAME PRINCE KOFFI
EMAIL prince_koffi006@yahoo.fr
ADDRESS NO 3 EAST LEGEON ROAD
ACCRA GHANA,WEST AFRICA.
PHONE 00233 6875 597

BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

I hereby draft this mail to you inorder to contact you for assistance into a gold business relationship for the future benefits of both of us.

However,before i move forward i am Prince Koffi the son of King Nana Koffi of Accra Ghana,as the position of my father in our country Ghana,my father is controlling a big gold farm land and as the result of this there are a lot of golds here for sale but due to here in Africa there is no big buyers so for this reason i therefore decided to seek for a trusted foreign business partner who can assist us over there so that this gold can be sold there in abroad.

Note:As soon as we built a business relationship with you and see that you are trusted we will go ahead to extablish a gold company with you in your country which you will be the director.

We can send to you 65kg of 22 karrat through Airway bill or if you wish to come to Ghana to see things for yourself and after both of us will travel to your country with as many golds we can carry along.

I hereby look forward to hear from you for a go ahead.

Prince Koffi.


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