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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • yayakoffi@freeghana.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "From Mr. David Akon" <davidakon@freeghana.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: yayakoffi@freeghana.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:33:34 +0100
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETARY

From David Akon

Attn; Good Friend

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transffered under the cooperation of a new partiner from paraguay.Presently i'm in paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total Contract sum. mean while,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assit me in transffering those funds despite that it failed us some how.Now contact my secretary in Accra Ghana.

His name is Mr. Yaya Koffi

e-Mail; yayakoffi@freeghana.com

Telephone; 233-276311360

Ask him to send you the Draft what of $950.000.00 which i kept for your compersation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.i appreciated your efforts at that time very much.so feel free and get intouched with my secretary Mr. Yaya Koffi and instruct him where to send the Draft to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time.in the moment, i'm very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partiner are having at hand, finally,remember that i had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to receive the Draft, so feel free to get intouch with Mr. Yaya Koffi to send the Draft to you without any delay.

Thanks and God bless

With Best Regards,

Mr. David Akon

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