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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:
  • "top of the day to you" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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: BARRISTER VINCENT KOFI <barr_kofi_attorney@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:06:51 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hello


>From the Desk of:
Barrister Vincent Kofi (esq)
Vincent Kofi Chambers,
Accra Ghana.
233-2436-59945
Dear richard ramsinu ,
Top of the day to you and your family,this is Barrister Vincent Kofi,the legal adviser to the KAYELOR'S family,The young man,Smith Kayelor has disclosed to me that he got your contact in the refugee camp that you are the most reliable and trust worthy foriegner to recieve and re-invest his fund in your country for a profitable business,and for safe keeping too.His late father Mr Dennis Kayelor was a very succesful farmer and gold marchant in zimbabwe,all was well untill president Mugabe the president gave an instruction that all the foriegn farmers in the country should vacate their farmland and go back to their country. But his father due to what he has invested in Zimbabwe and also on his farm refused quitting, it is because of this that the president instructed the police to lock him and all his properties were seized by the Zimbabwean Government. he later died in detention, All effort made by his fathers friend Mr.larry miller Connecting the Zimbabwean Minister for
Agriculture and his mother who is also a Zimbabwean citizen to release my father was to no avail. His mother, Mrs. Rebecca Kayelor knowing fully well the case of my father is a serious case revealed to him that his father Mr. Dennis Kayelor deposited some money in a particular security company in ghana.He has given me all the necessary documents concerning the funds and the money involved is 31,000,000usd.By the grace of God we have been able to transfer the consignment out of the security company to the (U.N) storage ware house were by the grace in Kotoka international Airport in ghana,by the grace of God it will be more easy for us to arrange how the consignment will get to you. Becuase now we are in close contact with the personal pilot to the president of ghana Captain Kojo Peters, and he has assured us that as soon as all necessary arrangment is put in placed then he will assist us to ship out the said consignment to you in U,K on behalf of the young man, I think he
is going to be on international assignment this week and i want us to grab this opportununity considering the fact that he will be flying on the presidential jet.
Please kindly get back to me with the following informations in other for me to give you all the vital informations you will require to recieve the funds on behalf of the young man'sfamily.As soon as i get response to your email i shall send you my international passport and the refugee id card of the young man,i shall also send all document's covering the said funds.
(1) A scanned copy of your international passport or driving license.
(2) Your certified contact address in your country.
(3) A guarrantee of an investment plan for the young man's family.
(4) Your co-ordinate account in which you can recieve the said funds in your country.
As soon as i get this informations we shall proceed immediatley.
Your's respectfully.
Barr.Vincent Kofi.(esq)
PLEASE CALL ME ON MY DIRECT LINE AS SOON AS YOU GET THIS EMAIL, YOU WILL ALSO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY OF SPEAKING TO THE YOUNG MAN DIRECTLY.


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