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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • john_ngomene@yahoo.com.cn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • privatecontact@ny.com

Fraud email example:

From: =?gb2312?q?Ngomene=20John?= <john_ngomene@yahoo.com.cn>
Reply-To: johnngomene@fastmail.fm
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:27:36 +0800 (CST)
Subject: trustworthy business partner


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FROM: JOHN NGOMENE.

ATTN: SIR/MADAM.

I hope you will not receive this proposal too surprising. I got your contact E-mail address in the Internet while searching for a trustworthy business partner who I can entrust a reasoning amount of money on his or her care for investment. I am a Liberian and a cabinet member of President Charles Tailor's? Administration. I am presently in Nigeria under political asylum status because of the on going war in Liberia. For your information I have secured and sent abroad the sum of $10,000,000.00 (TEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) through a diplomatic means.


The fund is presently under the custody of a Finance/security company in West Africa. The money was originally meant for the purchase of arms and ammunition to fight the rebel groups in Liberia then.

As a result of the present development I now send the money abroad for my personal investment without the knowledge of our Government.

However ,it will interest you to know that as soon as the Election is concluded in Liberia, My Boss will be handed over to a democratically elected Government for trial so we have to act fast to be at a safer side. My main purpose of writing you is to seek your partnership if you could help make claim of the money from the security company as the beneficiary for the benefit of both us. Details of how you are going to claim the money from the security company will be made known to you as soon as you indicate your interest in assisting to claim the Money.

Reply through below email ID: E-mail: (privatecontact@ny.com)

Thanks. Best regards,

Mr. John Ngomene.

+2341 433210

- Ngomene John

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