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This is just one type of the thousands
of scam e-mail variants
sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even
remotely similar to the scam published here or if you have
arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail
that you received, YOU
HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!
EDWARD KOFI
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This is an internet
scam! DON'T
send these scammers money for any reason.
[ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]
From: Edward Kofi <wacara.issac@bwici.com>
Reply-to: edwardkofi@live.fr
Subject: Greetings from Abidjan
Date: 01/17/2010 03:43:05 PM (Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:43:05 +0100 (CET))
Greetings from Abidjan
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to
overseas account ($160,000.000.00 ) One hundrend and sixty million US
DOLLARS from a prime Bank here in Abidjan. I want to ask you, If you are
not capable to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a
new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can
serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till
the end for this important business trusting in you and believing in God
that you will never let me down either now or in future
I am Mr Edward kofi, presently promoted to Auditor General in one of the
banks here in Abijian cote d'ivore. During the course of our auditing last
week, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in
2007 and since 2010 nobody has operated on this account again, after going
through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the
account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do
not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The
owner of this account is Mr. Keith Lathan an American and a great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska State, who unfortunately lost his
life in the Auto crash in Alaska , which crashed on January 31 2006,
including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the money. No
other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that the account is a secret account.
The total amount involved is One hundrend and sixty million US DOLLARS
only [160,000.000.00 DOLLARS ] and we wish to transfer this money into a
safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner; I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a
local person here, but to a foreigner who has information about the
account, which I shall give to you upon your positive response. I am
revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down
in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am
contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will
inform you the next step to take urgently. I need your strong assurance
that you will never let us down, me and a key bank official who is deeply
involved with me in this business.
I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. The bank
official will destroy all documents of the transaction immediately you
receive this money leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position
and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this
money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant
ministries and foreign exchange departments At the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 70% will be for us.
PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
I look forward to hear from you.
Best Regards
Edward Kofi.
[ END SCAM E-MAIL ]
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EDWARD KOFI
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It's important to note that
any real people and / or legitimate
organizations whose actual names or other details appear in
these scam e-mails have absolutely no
connection
with this scam!
Scammers never use their real
names.
They frequently take on the identity of real people to help make themselves and their scam appear legitimate.
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many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at
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headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!
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but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary /
commision,
low-interest loan, lottery prize,
bargain gold dust / diamonds,
work visa, etc.) in return
for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no
fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get
you to
willingly send them money.
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DUMBASS SPAMMERS:
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but it isn't perfect.
Occasionally a regular spam e-mail will get mistakenly published here
as
a
419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish
to have your crap mistakenly published on this website as a
419
advance fee
scam, the solution is
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