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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: frank kofi <frank.kofi7@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:38:25 +0000
Subject: I need your assistance in receiving fund

Dear SIR..



My name is Barrister Frank Kofi a senior Lawyer with Crystal Trust
Financial Company. Here in Accra Ghana West Africa, I need your assistance
in receiving an amount of USD$11,600,000.00 (Eleven Million, Six Hundred
Thousand United States dollars) in your hand for investment on export and
import, or estate developing, this money belong to one of my late honorable
minister BOUBA YAYA from Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, I have been looking for a
reliable honest business man who I can contact for this project before I
got your profile on my searching today. I am a Christian by religion and I
need a very trust person from any Arab or Europe country who I can take as
my partner in this project.

Late Honorable minister BOUBA YAYA is a man of dignity when he was alive
and I have been working for as a personal lawyer for a long time now more
than 12years before he died, and here I have only one of his son JACOB YAYA
who is 17years old, now I need your assistance as a partnership to join
hand together to claim this money and invest it with you in your country
where the money will be safe. I and JACOB have concluded to work with
you on ratio bases on 30% and 60% and 10% for any expenses every year base
on income.

Before I will proceed with more information and agreement graft, I will
like to hear from you first so I can inform JACOB about the development.
Please know that you will be in charge of the total money as WE DONT want
anybody to know that the money belong to US doe to the political matter
here in Africa.



I will give you more information upon your response to this proposal, to my
personal Email address or you can call me on this private
number+233245244070



Thanks waiting your reply

>From barrister Frank kofi

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