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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "barrister" (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.
• 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.
  • kokwesi@k.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "kokwesi@terra.es" <kokwesi@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 01:44:36 +0100 (MET)
Subject: 07 / 02 / 2007



Attn:


I am Barrister Kwesi Kofi Esq {Property and Inheritance Lawyer}.I know you don't know me and I don't know much about you, but I will be very please if this transaction will make us know each other as we both are going to benefit from helping the Dako Family here in Ghana at the moment, I am a solicitor, for a 22yrs old boy James Dako, he is the son of late Anthony Dako, a gold dealer and Farmer in Sierra Leone, who was killed by the Sierra Leonia Government due to Crisis that erupted in their country, before his death he has secretly deposited two consignments with a Security Company here in Accra, Ghana and have let it known to his first Son James only, as at the time of deposit.
At the moment my client James Dako and his only surviving family, which are his mother and sister are here in Ghana , at the Budumburam Refugee Camp. Infact their situation is very bad in the Camp, and they are having $11.5Million in one of the boxes and the other contains
GOLD, but the late father deposited it as family valuable and that was the information he told James as at the time of deposit, not until about One year after his death that James found out in a secret diary the true contents and the documents showing the deposit of the consignments in the Security Company. James Late Father Anothy Dako has warned that the family should not go back to their country? The Dako family wants to invest the money in a foreign country under the supervision of a well-trusted person. I want you to stand as the beneficiary for this. This transaction is 100% risk free. Note that for your time and help, 20% of the funds and the GOLD is yours and 5% of the fund is for any expenses incurred both locally and internationally in the course of this shipment of the consignments and 5% will be for me the family Lawyer, then the remaining 70% is for the Dako Family to enable them start up business in your country with your support. When you reply I will tell you things you need to do. Thanks for your understanding. I will make sure everything is done under legal grounds with out any breach of our local laws and any international laws. If it is necessary for you to come I will let you know ASAP.Please feel free to write me as soon as possible to my private email :kokwesi@k.ro hope to hear from you soon.

Regards

Barrister Kwesi Kofi Esq

Kulendi Law firm

Direct E-mail:kokwesi@k.ro







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