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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: "Mr.Victor J Koffi" <mr.victorjameskoff@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:00:15 +0000
Subject: Message From Victor


From:Mr.Victor James Kofi,
Chief Security Officer.

Dear Friend
I Need You’re Help Please.

(Keep This Mail Top Secret)
Please carefully read and understand the reason of contacting you through
this email. I'm contacting you now,and I believed that you are reliable,
trustworthy and honest person to introduce this transfer Investment project
with. My name is Mr. Victor James Kofi (Jnr). On November 2000, One Mr.
Hussein Omar from Iraq National, a Gold dealer. who runs gold business in my
country Ghana to Asia, whom I was accounting officer made a numbered time
Deposit 1 Trunk Box, valued at USD$12.2Millon Dollars ( Twelve Million Two
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) for twelve calendar months in our
company. I am the Chief Security Officer in the Security Company,
Accra-Ghana, I am a Ghanaian. I am glad to hear you are from such good
country thanks.

Upon Maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but
got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered
that Mr. Hussein Omar from Iraq, with his wife and two children / parents
was died with his family in a bomb blast in Iraq. My investigation proved
that he died with his supposed next- of- kins in the bomb blast. The Trunk
box total sum, USD$12.200,000.00 is still in our Company and the demurrage
is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one
will ever come forward to claim it.

Consequently, I shall present you to stand in as the next- of- kin to the
late Mr. Hussein Omar. Consequently, upon acceptance of this proposal, I
will give you detailed information on how this deal would be carried out.
The money will be shared in the ratio: (60%) for me, (35%) for you, the
remaining (5%) will be kept to recover any expenses made during the process
of the transfer into your account which include both our telephone bills.

I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law as I will use my position as the
Chief Security of OPERATIONS' Officer to secure approvals and guarantee the
successful execution of this transaction. I want you to handle everything
for me.

I have the trust in you and I know that you will not disappoint me; I don't
need to know you for many years to trust you. If you have an idea of what
should be done to being the money out of Africa, please tell me I need
you’re seriously and I have the impression that you are a nice gentle
person. Please be informed that your utmost confidentiality is required. On
your reply include your full contact details information as bellow.

1. Your names.
2. Your direct mobile telephone / fax number.
3. Your fiscal current address or Office Address were the Trunk Box will be
delivered to you.

I will be waiting for your urgent response for more details.

Best regards,
Mr.Victor James Kofi

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