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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: koffi andrews <koffiandrews@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:46:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLEASE REPLY AND CONFIDENTIAL


From Mr.Koffi Andrews ,
Auditing and Accounting Unit.
Foreign Remittance Department.
Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique au Togo


Dear friend,

Please Reply And Confidential
====================

I am Mr.koffi Andrews, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of (Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique au Togo) in west africa. With due respect and regards. I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction. During my auditing in this Finance company, I came across a sum of Ten Million United States Dollars ($10 million) belonging to a deceased customer (George Brumley Jr) of Atlanta who died along with his wife and other family members on board in a crusial plane crash that happened in Kenya here in Africa as you can confirm through this web site:
<<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html>>

Since the death of the couple, I personally concluded a successful investigation about this them and find out that the supposed next of kin died along with them so there is no other person left to inherit this fund. On this note I decided to seek for a foreigner whom his name shall be used as the next of kin to the deceased so that the Finance company will legaly transfer the fund to his account without any problem.

I got your contact through a web directory and decided to reach you to see if you could be interested to conclude this with me. The request of a foreigner to be used as the next of kin in this tranaction is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner so the next of kin must be a foreigner too. So when the fund is transferred to your account I will visit your country for the sharing of the money as I am almost due for retirement.

Bear in mind that the entire transaction will be risk-free involvement from your side and legitimate since the funds will be coming to you as your INHERITANCE. And here in the Finance company, I have also concluded all the underground works that will lead to a successful transfer of this fund to any applying next of kin of my choice. If this proposition is acceptable by you, respond to me ASAP before the Finance company pays the fund to our Government Treasurey as unclaimed bill. We shall agree on how we would share the fund whan I hear from you.

Upon your acceptance to this proposal,reply through this email address: koffiandrews@yahoo.com, for the confidentiality of this transaction.I expect your urgent response indicating your full interest in this great business transaction to our both mutual trust.

Yours Faithfully,

MR koffi Andrews









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