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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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Fraud email example:

From: prince koffi <prince_koffi008@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:25:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From Prince Koffi


NAME PRINCE KOFFI
EMAIL prince_koffi006@yahoo.fr
ADDRESS NO 3 EAST LEGEON ROAD
ACCRA GHANA,WEST AFRICA.
PHONE 00233 6875 597

BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

I hereby draft this mail to you inorder to contact you for assistance into a gold business relationship for the future benefits of both of us.

However,before i move forward i am Prince Koffi the son of King Nana Koffi of Accra Ghana,as the position of my father in our country Ghana,my father is controlling a big gold farm land and as the result of this there are a lot of golds here for sale but due to here in Africa there is no big buyers so for this reason i therefore decided to seek for a trusted foreign business partner who can assist us over there so that this gold can be sold there in abroad.

Note:As soon as we built a business relationship with you and see that you are trusted we will go ahead to extablish a gold company with you in your country which you will be the director.

We can send to you 65kg of 22 karrat through Airway bill or if you wish to come to Ghana to see things for yourself and after both of us will travel to your country with as many golds we can carry along.

I hereby look forward to hear from you for a go ahead.

Prince Koffi.


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