419 scam: "Chris Cofer"<ma766731@yahoo.cn> Can you be trusted to be in this?

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "ma7766731@yahoo.cn" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Chris Cofer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ma7766731@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 01:40:53 -0700
Subject: Can you be trusted to be in this?

>From Sgt. Chris Cofers :

Hello

I know this mail will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I

implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make
will go off a long way to determine my future and yours too.

Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Sgt. Chris Cofers, a US Marine Sgt.
Serving in the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment that Patrols the Anbar
province, Iraq. I am desperately in need of assistance and intimate
relationship. I have summoned up courage to contact you. I am presently in
Iraq and I found your contact particulars in this dating journal.

I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of Four Million five Hundred
Thousand US Dollars (4,500 000 USD) to the states or any safe country where
you reside,

This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved and with this we
will have good and happy life forever. I have to do this and resign from the
military otherwise i might be killed and i don't want to die, i want to be
loved by someone who will cherish me, about six of my friends are killed by
bomb explosion, so i don't want to be a victim of such.

Click Copy this link to get the full story: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2988455.st

Please respond to my personal email add ( ma7766731@yahoo.cn ) then i can
give more details

Respectfully,

Sgt. Chris Cofers.
United States Marine Corps. IRAQ

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