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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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• 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.
  • cmstafsir@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Tafsir Mbaye" <cmsmbaye11@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: cmstafsir1982@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:56:47 +0000
Subject: Assalam Alaikum,Urgent Respond Needed,

Assalam Alaikum,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your overseas account the sum of($ 18.600,000.00 USD) United States Dollars from one of the Prime Banks here in Dakar Senegal.

I am Dr Tafsir Mbaye (Bsc,Msc) the Regional Director of Crédit Mutuel du Sénégal here in Dakar Senegal,during our auditing ,I discovered a floating funds in an account opened in our bank since 1989 and till date no body has operated on the account and after going through old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died long ago in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a[WILL], hence the floating of the funds and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

Therefore ,with a personal conviction of trust and confidence as a muslem brother,I wish to contact you as a foreigner, to stand as a relative because you share the same surname with the decease,thus I can work out the release of the funds , No other person in the bank knows about the account , please be assured of the risk free , I'm the one that will work it out,all I need is your cooperation because the account content can not be approved to an indigen here as his next of kin .

At the conclusion of this project, I propose a joint investment of an equal partnership to you or we may share it in a ration of 45% for you and 45% for me 10% for the transfer expesnes which can be spent by you or me.one more thing please;
I beg you don't consider this against moral justification ,there are many other aspects of life we may contribute with this funds to help the less privileged and the needy in a society than having it shared as an unclaimed bill among Government PLEASE .

I look forward to your earliest response AT(cmstafsir@yahoo.com)
Yours Truly
Dr Tafsir Mbaye
Regional Director,
Crédit Mutuel du Sénégal

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