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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.
  • confidential_koffi_benson@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "koffi benson" <koffibenson33333@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: confidential_koffibenson@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:37:49 -0500
Subject: Greetings...

I AM GREETING YOU TODAY WITH HAPPINESS AND JOY AS I BRING TO YOU THIS NOBLE
IDEA TOWARDS UPLIFTMENT OF MANKIND IN THE UNIVERS. I AM DOCTOR, KOFFI
BENSON AND I HAVE BEEN EMPOWERED BY RTD. HON. CHIEF DR. SAMUEL ALOZIE WHO
WORKED MORE THAN 25 YEARS IN SO MANY TOP GOVERNMENT POSITIONS WHERE HE MADE
SO MUCH WEALTH FOR HIS SELF AND HIS ONLY DAUTHER.

PRESENTLY HE DIED ON PLAN CRASH, DR. ALOZIE, WAS UNDER MY MINISTRATION AND
HAS CONTRIBUTED GREATLY IN OUR MINISTRY.

BEFORE HIS DEATH, HE INFORMED ME AS HIS ADVOCATE THAT HE WAS NOT
CONFORTABLE WITH THE AMOUNT OF WEALTH HE HAS MADE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND
HE MANDATED ME TO GIVE IT OUT THE ABOVED STATED SUM TO RELIGOUS
ORGANIZATIONS, CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS, AND LESS-PREVILEGDED PEOPLE IN OUR
SOCIETY AS A GIFT. BUT HE HAS STATED THAT THE ESSENCE MUST BE TO UPLIFT
MANKIND.

NOTE THE AMOUNT INVOLVED IS US$10.5MILLION DOLLARS AND IS KEPT AND SECURED
FOR SECURITY PURPOSES.
SEND ME AN EMAIL INDICATING YOUR WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT
THIS OFFER SO THAT I CAN INFORM YOU WHERE AND HOW TO PICK THE FUND
IMMEDITAELY, PROVIDED YOU WILL GIVE ME A FULL CONPREHENSIVE UPDATE OF HOW
YOU WILL USE THE FUND FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE WORKS WHICH THE FUND IS
MADE FOR TO THE
GLORY OF GOD.

CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL : confidential_koffi_benson@yahoo.com

THANKS AND REMAIN BLESSED,

YOURS FAITHFULLY,

DR. KOFFI BENSON

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