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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • vero008my@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: veroica koffi <vero008my@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: vero005my@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:53:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: call for assistant


From: Veronica & Ruth Koffi
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
Email: vero008my@yahoo.com
Dearest One,

REQUEST TO BE OUR GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP US TO COME OVER YOUR COUNTRY:

Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile,
permit us to inform you of our desire of asking you to be a guardian orfoster parent to us and then help us out in what we are about to tell you.
I'm Veronica Koffi 20 years old and have a Younger sister Ruth (18). We are the children of Late Mr. & Mrs. John A. Koffi. Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. Our mother died when we where babies.

Before the death of our father on Sept. 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called us by his bed side and told us that he has the sum of fonr million Five hundred thousand United State Dollars USD ($4.5million) deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks here in Abidjan. He told us that he used my sister's name (Ruth) as the next of Kin in depositing the money.

He then strongly advised us not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of our choice (outside our country,Cote D'Ivoire) that willl assist us in the wise investment of the money.We have since left the money in the bank with the view of our making use of it for investment purposes after our education carrier here. But as you may be already aware by now, our country (Cote D' Ivoire) is presently at political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards the capture of the commercial center of the country, Abidjan, where we are now.

For this ugly development in this country, we have now decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it is too late to do that. We now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management. Because of this we are honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To serve as a guardian to us and then assist us transfer the money into your bank account.

(2) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to further our education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept to stand as our guardian or foster parent to us, we need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist us invest it. But if you still want a percentage, we are willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Pleas tell us if you feel the percentage we offered is not ok by you.

As soon as we receive your concrete assurance to assist us with our proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, we will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your account as we want to come over to stay with you parmanently. The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be giving us information on when the transfer will be over. We shall also send our pictures to you and shall also need yours too.

No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please we beg you to keep this highly secret for our safety, as we believe that those that killed our Daddy are still after us. Please reply us through this yahoo email box vero008my@yahoo.com)
Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Veronica & Ruth Koffi
Email: vero008my@yahoo.com






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