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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "this transaction is real and never a joke" (this phrase is often used in inheritance scams such as next of kin or https://www.419scam.org/419-murdered-businessman.htm">orphan scams. )
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "abidjan" (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.
  • dalvir2008kazim@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: dalvirkazim@volny.cz (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:28:06 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?iso-8859-2?Q?From:_KAZIM/ELIZABETH_DALVIR?=

From: KAZIM/ELIZABETH DALVIR
Attn: DEAR BELOVED SIR/MADAM,
CONFIDENTIAL!
Dearest one,
I am KAZIM DALVIR the only son of late former Director of finance,SIR
PETER DALVIR KAZIM Sierra-Leone diamond and mining corporation.I must
confess my agitation is real, and my words is my bond, in this proposal.
My late father diverted this fund acquired from the over influencing
of price of sales/purchasing of raw materials, now he has deposited
the money with BANK IN ABIDJAN BY FIXED DEPOSIT FORM,and he attached
a strict clause to the fund in bracket(PAYAS RECEIVED), where I am residing
under political assylum with my younger sister elizabeth, my younger
sister who is 17 years old.
Now the war in my country is over with the help of ECOMOG soldiers, the
present government of Sierra Leone has revoked the passport of all officers
who served under the former regime and now ask countries to expel such
person at the same time freeze their account and confiscate their asset,
it is on this note that I am contacting you. For you to assist me transfer
this money in your private bank account, the said amount is (Twenty
seven Million Dollars) $27 Million. I am compensating you with 12% of
the total money amount, now all my hope is banked on you and I really
wants to invest this money in your country, were their is stability
of Government, political and economic welfare.
Honestly I want you to believe that this transaction is real and never
a joke. My late father SIR PETER DALVIR KAZIM gave me the photocopies
of the certificate of deposit issued to him by BANK IN ABIDJAN on the
date of deposit, and he called me closer to his bed side before his
call to glory(R.I.P) that i should pray to God first, before contacting
any foreigner and he warned me stricly that i should avoid men with
their greedy and evil mind since this is the only legacy we are inheriting
from him.Sir,this is for you to be clarified because, I do not expose
my self to anybody I see, I believe that you are able to keep this transaction
secret for me because this money is the hope of my life,it is important.

Please reply me immediately after you must have gone through my message
fill free and make it urgent.That is the reason why I offered you 12
% of the total money amount, and in case of any other necessary expenses
you might incure during this transaction inluding your telephone calls.

N.B Try and negotiate for me some profitable blue chip investment opportunities
which is risky free which I can invest with this money when it is transferred
to your account and you will be our guiardian,personally I am interested
in estate management and hotel business, please advise me.Call me back
immediately you receive this message for more explanation.And promise
me and esther my younger sister to be a father considering our situation
and not to betray us.Please contact me at my private mailbox(dalvir2008kazim@yahoo.com)

Thanks and God bless
Best regards
KAZIM/ELIZABETH DALVIR
NB: my late father used me the only son as the beneficiary / next of
kin on the day of deposit and also told me I need a foreign assistance
of a foreigner with a legitimate bank Account abroad who will stand
as co-beneficiary and partner abroad.

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