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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.
  • drjuyostitus2@yahoo.fr
  • drjuyostitus2@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr Juyos Titus" <drjuyostitus@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:51:50 +0000
Subject: ATAITION DEAR SIR

From:
The Desk of DR JUYOS TITUS
Bill And Exchange Manager-('ADB )
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Republic of Benin. West Africa.
Alt/Email:drjuyostitus2@yahoo.fr
STRICTLY SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Friend,

Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received a worthy
information about your reliability and honesty. Hence I confide in you. I am
DR JUYOS TITUSS,from (AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK),Republic of Benin.During the
course of our auditing
we discovered the sum of twelve million five hundred thousand united states
dollars (USD$12.500.000.00) floating in an account opened in this Bank
since 1997 and as from 2001 nobody has operated on this account again, and
after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the
owner of the account died without a [HEIR]sept 11th 2001 by plane crash,
hence the money is floating.

After due verification I noticed that no other personknows about this
account except his wife who was also invovled in the crash, and the account
has no otherbeneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that
untill his death he was the Director GOLD ARK [SARL] Since our bank,(African
Development Bank)Benin Rep.got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim his money because we
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but up
to date nobody came up to this bank as his next of kin or relative.Since the
country law dose not allow such fund to stay more than five years, i hereby
implore you to act as the the next of kin i will funish you with all the
informations when the need arises.
For easy communication farward to me thus.
1.Your Full name /adddress .
2.Telephone number.
3. Fax numbers .
It has been resolved that 30% will be for you while 10% has been maped out
to defray any expences that might be incured during the process of the
ransaction. Then 60% will be for me which shall be release after the funds
must
have been remitted into your bank account.
Email:Reply to thisalternative:drjuyostitus2@yahoo.fr
Hoping for a very successful business relationship with
you.
Best Regards,
DR JUYOS TITUS

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