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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: MISS ROTH KOFFI <kofroth28m@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ms_roth_koffi28@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:15:55 +0000
Subject: Re: I hope am not offending you with my message.

Re: I hope am not offending you with my message.
FROM MISS ROTH KOFFI.
GHANA WEST AFRICA.

Hello Dear,

Please do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your
personal ethics. I am writing you for the second time since you did
not reply to me at first email sent to you. However, I am contacting
you in order to ask for your assistance on this confidential business
proposal with full financial benefit for both of us.

Before I go into further details, please be informed that I am writing
without any other person(s) pre-knowledge of my contacting you on
this transaction.

Therefore I will appreciate same attitude to be maintained by you all
through. am Miss Roth Koffi a Daughters of late former Director of
finance,Dr Julien Koffi from Libya I must confess my agitation is
real, and my words is my bond, in this proposal.

My late father Dr Julien Koffi diverted this fund acquired from the
overinfluencing of price of
sales/purchasing of rawmaterials, now he has deposited the money with
BANK here in Ghana BY FIXED DEPOSIT FORM,and he attached a strict
clause to the fund in bracket(PAY AS RECEIVED),where i residing under
political assylum.

I am just 18 years old and a university undergraduate which i stoped
furthering my studies because of my uncles wickedness,really i don't
know what to do now, I want a realable and a trustworthy person
overseas who will assist me financially and morally to get this money
because it is the only hope of my furture surviving, this is because i
have suffered a lot of set backs in my studies as a result of
incessant political crisis here in Libya,conbined with the
humulations and sufferings that i oftenly received from my uncles,
honestly the death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life up
to this date.

I feel pleased contacting you personally with the hope to establish
good business relationship that is strongly rooted in truth and the
fear of God. I writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek
your assistance to transfer cash of ($27,000.000.00)(Twentyseven
Million Dollars) now in the custody of a bank here in Ghana,although
my father made them to understand that the money belongs to his
foreign partner.
My father had already made arrangement for me to be evacuated to Ghana
with the certificate of deposit he made with a bank here in Ghana
through the aid of UN evacuation team.

During the war in my country Libya, and following the indiscriminate
looting of Public and Government properties by the rebel forces.The
untimely deaths caused my mother's heart failure and other related
complications of which she later died in the hospital after we must
have spent a lot of money on her ending.

Now alone in this strange country suffering without any care or
help.Without any relation am now like refugees and orphans.

Please i will like you to send to me the following information so that
i will submitte it to my father's Bank here in Ghana for the transfer.

1. Your Full Name.
2. Bank Name:
3. Beneficiary Name:
4. Account Number:
5. Bank Address:
6. Swift Code or Routing Number:
7. Your Mobile Telephone Number:

Your International passport copy.This is to enable them prepare the
evacuation document in your favour as the beneficiary.

They want you to confirm your date of visiting Ghana, so that we will
visit their Bank office together.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:
1) Are you married?
2) what do you wish we can invest on when I will come to your country?.
3) Are you ready to assist me honestly in this transaction?
4) Are there things you want to ask me?
5) I need you to tell me whether you are capable of receiving this
amount or not when transferred?
6) What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you?
7) Can you honestly help me as your daughters?
8) Can you help me come over there in your country to live so that i
can further my studies?

I know that you are not going to cheat me when the money get to your account?.
As soon as i receive this Bank detail information, i will go to the
Bank to be instructed to effect the change of Account to your name as
my WILL beneficiary.

Please consider this and get back to me as soon as possible thruogh
this email addrees below for more details: ms_roth_koffi28@yeah.net or
ms_roth_koffi28@yahoo.com

Yours faithful,

MISS ROTH KOFFI.
GHANA WEST AFRICA

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