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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:
  • "the consignment " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "trunk box" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "trunk boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "ich habe eine neue e-mail-adresse!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a orphan scam.
• 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.
  • rosekofigh1@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Miiss.=20Rose=20Kofi?=" <rosekofigh1@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: rosekofigh@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:19:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dear (PLS I NEED YOUR ASSIST...)


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: rosekofigh1@yahoo.de



- Hello Dear, Good day and how are you today dear? I hope fine. Permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I'm Miss. Rose Koffi (19years old) from Accra (Ghana), and the only child of Late Mr. & Mrs. Michael Koffi. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Ghana. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby. Before the death of my father on November 2005 in a private hospital here in Accra, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he deposited two trunk boxes with Unique Trust Security Company one containing $12.5million US Dollars and the other 200kg of Gold dust. He told me that he used his name to deposit the two boxes (consignment) and my name as the next of Kin to the deposit of the consignment. He then strongly advised me NOT to seek for assistance in the investment o!
f the consignment from his lawyer nor any of his friend in my country here in Ghana, but to seek for a foreign partner from any country of my choice (outside my country, Ghana) that will assist me in the wise investment of the consignment which contain $12.5million US Dollars and 200kg of gold dust. But as you may be already aware by now, my country (Ghana) is presently under HIPC. I am in Accra Ghana, where the consignment was deposited by my late father and finally decided to take quick actions and have this consignment transferred out of my country Ghana that is why i need your urgent assistance to take it out of my country and I will use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management. Because of this, I am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways: (1) to be my guardian and then assist me financially to transfer my consignment into your country. (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education a!
nd then settle there permanently. I am willing to offer you, 20 % of t
he total money as compensation for your assistance. Please let me know if you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by you. As soon as i receive your full assurance and corporation, I will then give you the contact information of the Security Company where this consignment was deposited for you to contact them and tell them on how you want them to get the consignment to any destination of your choice. I shall send my picture to you and shall also need yours too. Please no matter what your decision may be, I want you to reply me on my email address and please let this be confidential between me and you. Waiting for your reply soonest. Thanks and take good care of yourself for me, yours faithfully, Miss. Rose Kofi.

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