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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: MARK KOFFi <markkoffione@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 08:41:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE



ATTN: TAMMY KING

FROM: MR MARK KOFFI

TEL: 27 78 374 88 78

I acknowledge the receipt for your email you sent to me and my mother . I am very happy to meet a nice person like you who is willing to assist me and my family in this transaction and I dont know how to thank you but only almighty God will bless you in your effort.

Moreover, since you are willing to assist me and my mother in this transaction you have to promise us that this money will be safe when transferred into your personal account in your country as you can see that since my father past away me and my mother are here in south africa as an asylum seeker and since them my mother have been paying a lot of money to the security company for the safe keeping of the money and all the necessary document that back up this transaction are intact with me and if you will be sincere to me I will use your name as a co beneficary on the documents and bear in mind that you and my mother will sign a contract agreement between you and her that we enable us to see that the money will be safe in your hand.

I would love to know the type of business are you doing in your country to enable us to know where my father money will be invested in your country and if you have a company in your country that means that all the money will be invested under your care so that we can be a partner in your business or company if you have any

Upon your returning of this email kindly send your personal contact number to me including your fax number to enable us to communicate each other through phone and fax and you can reply us through this fax number 27 11 507 66 54 and also you can reach me through this number to enable us to disscus more about this transaction 27 78 374 88 78 and make sure that you keep this transaction secret to avoid publicity

Untill I hear from you before I will inform you what to do next

You can be using this yahoo address to reply me as soon as possible.

I am looking forward to hear from you soonest

BEST REGARDS

MR MARK KOFFI

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