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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:
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: LINDA KOFFI <linda_koffi002@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:27:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GOOD DAY.


LINDA KOFFI[Mrs].

BELOVED ONE,
I got your good name and address via the directory and I had the conviction that you are a God fearing person who can help me handle my money very well at this condition of my health.And also help to look after my children.So I decided to contact you.

My name is Mrs Linda Koffi, I am from the Republic of Togo and I am living with AIDS .Ever since my husband,Hon.Jand Koffi,the former finance minister Of Republic of Togo died of AIDS and I was tested positive of the HIV virus, the mass media wouldn't just let me and my family be.My children have stopped going to school because they could no longer stand the humiliations from fellow students.The embarrassment is getting on my nerves but what can I do. I would have

loved to travel out of the country to a place where I will have peace and spend the rest of my life with my children but I couldn't make it for I am weak and severely sick.Moreover no Embassy would grant me Visa to her country with my hairs withering and boils all over my body. From all indications, I know that my days are numbered.

In the light of the above, I have contacted you to assist me and receive and secure the sum of $6.5 US DOLLARS which my husband deposited with a deposit house here in Ghana for the up-keeping of my children hence he foresaw his death while he was alive. I wish you to have my children as your children and my children will have you as their guardian.For your efforts, I am prepared to give you a power of attorney to help oversee the investment of the fund under your care because of my children's lack of business experience.I will like you see the posibility of investing the fund in a real estate or stock exchange business.

I am looking forward to hearing from you while thanking you for your anticipated cooperation in this regard.Please contact my son on the telephone number:+233-243826907 for more information that you may need because of my ill health.

Kind Regards,
LINDA KOFFI[Mrs].


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