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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Ivan Poski" <ivaposki@ovasi.net>
Reply-To: ivaposki@compaqnet.fr
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:48:40 +0000
Subject: From Mr. Ivan Poski.(URGENT REPLY)

From Mr. Ivan Poski.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Ivan Poski, the leader of the Ovasi Committee in Africa. A Committe
group secretly sponsored by Late Bruce Carr and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the
embattled chairman, CEO of Yukos oil Menatap SBP Bank.

The Ovasi committee group contributed immensely in the revolution that sent
President Charles Taylor on exile. Beside our fight for equality and
political stability was the lusaka diamond, we had control over the Lusaka
Diamond mines, which was a joint investment between Late Bruce,Mr.
Khodorkovsky and some locas chiefs in Africa.

Diamonds were being mined and sold to French and Arabian dealers for many
years. On 28th of may 2004 before the death of Late Bruce Carr the sum of
US$360million was realized from the sales of the Diamonds at the Lusaka
Mines and as usual was disbursed according to the agreement among the war
lords, the local chiefs and the foreign sponsors. The sum of US$21m and
US$25m was sent to late Bruce and Mr. Khodorkovsky respectively. All funds
previously sent to them were usually done through a European security
Agency. The Agency moves the money from Africa to Europe where it is
delivered to different Financial House in Europe.
On this particular transaction I had delays in sending a confirmation of the
arrival of the funds in Europe before the announcement of the death of Mr
Bruce Carr. Right now the funds are still with the Financial House in Europe
waiting for instructions on how they are to be released/transfer.

YOUR ROLE:

If you agree on my terms, I will give you every detail you require to
present yourself to the financial house in Europe as an associate or next of
kin to Late Bruce Carr and they will send the funds to wherever you tell
them you wants it.

MY TERMS:

I will take 70% of the funds when you get it,this amount will enable me to
travel to USA for my lever transplanting operation.

If this is okay by you, notify me immediately so that we can proceed.

Sincerely,
Ivan Poski


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