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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.

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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031844652 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • brrwilsonmorris@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • brrwilsonmorris@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barrister Wilson Morris" <matt_peter4@msn.com>
Reply-To: brrwilsonmorris@excite.com
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:14:04 +0000
Subject: IN GOOD FAITH...

From: The Desk of Attorney Wilson Morris.
Alpha Bank
66 Cannon St,
London, EC4N 6EP
Tel:+447031844652
fax:+447092875516
PRIVATE E-MAIL: brrwilsonmorris@excite.com

Good day ,

MUTUAL AGREEMENT
After much consideration I decided to contact you. I am Attorney Wilson
Morris from Australia posted to London to work as the head of Account dept
Alpha Bank London.During a routine check on a dormant account I discovered a
dormant domiciliary account with the sum of $18, 450,000.00(Eighteen
million, four hundred and fiftyThousand Dollars) belonging to a
customer with the name Mr. Gordons Zakari.

This amount has been deposited for about 9 years without any known
withdrawal.After proper investigation and records search it became very
clear that the real owner of these funds is Mr. Rahid Abdul a member of the
ousted regime of Saddam Hussein. I was able to get this fact because most
members of that ousted barbaric Regime deposited funds using nonexistent
names and invalid addresses in order not to be traced and the same name was
used to create the confiscated accounts with HSBC Brazil.

I am the only person here that has found out this fact and have decided to
get this funds transferred out of this bank. Turning these funds over to the
government is not advisable because I have lost a cousin in that war which
has lost its justification moreover it will still end up been used for the
same purpose (war). To me the best option is to transfer these funds to a
very safe account of a business person and this is just why I contacted you.

Please be very calm, as I know this letter might be very shocking but it is
just the fact and you do not need to worry for I will ensure its success. I
will want a situation where you provide a safe account so we can wire this
funds directly to the account. What we need to do is to arrange/notarizes
some documents to assume that Mr. Gordons Zakari. (since he does not
exist) is late and we make a claim to the funds. With my position here and
also an Attoney, I will ensure that everything works out to our advantage.
This should be kept to your self-alone for you have just gotten a Lifetime
opportunity. Please do not expose it to a third party due to my position
here.. After receipt of a satisfactory response I will send across to you
full details and mode of sharing.

You can call me on +447031844652 or Email me brrwilsonmorris@excite.com

Yours faithfully

Brr. Wilson Morris.

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