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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "mensah koffa" <mensahkoffa@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mensahkoffa@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 01:01:52 +0300
Subject: please help me asap


*ATTEN:Dear Sir/Madam,*
*
How you doing over there? hope all is fine.first and foremost i will like
to tell you that i do believe you are God sent, because , i have be praying
and fasting over this, that God should provide me with a sincere and
reliable person with Godly mind.
I am mensah koffa the only surviving children of late Steve Koffa who
traded in gold and diamond before his assassination during the Sierra Leone
civil war.

My Father, mother, and two brothers were assassinated and burnt beyond
recognition by rebels after looting cash, diamonds and gold from my family
but somehow spared my life.I am contacting you in respect of the sum of
$76,500.000.00 deposited by my late father in a security company before he
died. This money is part of money he realized from the sales of diamonds and
gold by him.

I got your contact on a notepad details that a previous user forgot to
delete on the pc I am using on the internet this morning and having been
convinced from your profile that you are capable of handling a transaction
of this magnitude, I decided to entrust you with this great task.

My father told me and my elder brother JULIUS koffa (who died on the 17th
of December 2006 due to poor medical attention resulting from my inability
to buy prescribed drugs for him) about these deposit with this security
company in Ghana, and when we came to Ghana after his death we found the
security company and I confirmed that the three boxes containing $25.5
MILLION DOLLARS each were still in their safe custody. Due to our refugee
status, we were not qualified to claim the deposit, more so before his death
he gave me and my brother some documents and he said that this documents are
the documents covering the deposit and that am the next of kin so with all
this documents the truck boxes will be released to me and my brother.

I been the next of kin to the consignment so it was then i was told that
at the time my late father deposited the truck boxes he made an agreement
with the security company that its only his foreign business partners in
overseas has the right to received the said truck box so they shows me the
document and i go through mine and see also, so i told them that we will
look for one of my late father partners in overseas and as soon as i talked
to any i will let them know.

So i went and confided in a lawyer here in Ghana and told him everything so
the lawyer confronted the security company and was also told the same thing
so he told me to look for any of my late father business partners in
overseas so i told him that i do not know any so he ask me to look for a
trust worthy person that will assist me a God fearing person that will not
run away with the funds before i got your email contact.

What I require of you to do for me now is your agreeing to this proposal
and contact the lawyer to issue you with a change of ownership to claim the
box from the security company here in Ghana(I beg for your utmost HONESTY
assuring me that you will not betray me when the boxes is handed over to
you.)I agree to give you 50% from the three boxes containing $76,500,000.00
for been my beneficiary in overseas that will stand as my late father
foreign investor and the balance 50% will be mine and you will assist me to
secure new documents that will enable me to travel down to join you in your
country.
Please in your reply include your;

A: FULL NAMES
B: ADDRESS
C. Direct Cell Phone #

As these information will be required by the lawyer here in Ghana to draft
the new change of ownership in your name as my beneficiary.Hope to hear from
you soon.please send your reply via my private email address:
**mensahkoffa@yahoo.com* <mensahkoffa@yahoo.com>
*Best Regards
Thanks and God bless.
Mensah Koffa
*

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