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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "for your efforts, i am prepared to offer you " (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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
• This email message is a next of kin 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.
  • andrew_koffi001@yahoo.es

Fraud email example:

From: "Andrew Koffi" <andrew_koffi280@web2mail.com>
Reply-To: andrew_ffi@yahoo.it
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:27:35 +0100
Subject: RE PLEASE BE HONEST WITH ME


Dear Sir/Ma,

I cannot imagine the surprise this will bring to you, but please be rest
assured is with good
faith and intentions from a friend in dare need of your assistance to help
us transfer the
inheritance sum of US$20,000,000 (Twenty Million U.S Dollars) into your
account or
company's account, in which God will bless you for rendering a helping hand
to others.

My name is Mr. Andrew Koffi, and I work with Metropolitan and AlliedBank in
Ghana and
I am writing in respect of Mr.Choi, Soohyun a customer who perished in a
plane crash
[Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers aboard on August 6, 1997.
Below is
the website of the plane crash,

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/

Since the demise of this our customer, I personally have been watching with
keen interest
to see the next of kin but all has proved abortiveas no one has come to
claim his funds of
US$20,000,000, which has been with my company for a very long time. On this
note,
I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin as no
one has come
up to be the next of kin.

For your efforts, I am prepared to offer you 30% of the total sum while 5%
will be set aside
for expenses incurred during the course of this transaction,5% for the less
Privileged in the
society and the remaining 60% is for me and my Partners.

Please note that this transaction is risk-free and the major thing I ask of
you is to assure
me the safety of the money when transferred to your account. Further
Information and
arrangement will commence as soon as trust, Confidence and good relationship
is established.

I shall be most grateful if you maintain the confidentiality required In
this transaction. Do not
hesitate to contact me for further Directives to enable us commence towards
the conclusion of this
transaction.

Thanks and God bless as i await your earliest response in this regard.For
convenience please
respond to this mail using my direct personal email address:
andrew_koffi001@yahoo.es

Mr. Andrew Koffi

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