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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 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.
  • faithburke2000@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: <faithburke101@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:55:27 +0000
Subject: God Bless you.

From: Mrs.Faith Burke
Accra Ghana
Email:Faithburke2000@yahoo.com
Dear

With due respect trust and humility, I write you this proposal, which I
believe will be a great interest to you. I found your contact while I was
doing a private research on the Internet for a reliable and capable foreign
partner that will assist my family and I. That's why I contacted you.I am
Mrs. Faith Burke the wife of Mr. Jonathan Presley Burke of Zimbabwe.During
the current war against famers in Zimbabwe and from the support of our
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country,
all the white and black farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his
party members and his followers. My husband who was one of the best farmers
in our country and treasurer of the farmer's Co-operation did not support
his idea and so the party members invaded my husband's farms and burnt
everything in the farm, killed my husband and made away with a lot of items
in my husband's farm.
Before the death of my husband,he deposited $25million dollars in a security
company in spain,I am the beneficiary of the money.But my husband as entered
an Agreement with the company that before i could lay my hands on the money
I must provide a foreign partner of Investor.Thats the reason why i am
contacting you to help me act as the foreign partner so that the money will
be deliver to you.
Then me and my children will then move over to your country to start a new
life there.We have concluded to give you 25% of the total money as soon as
you help me act as my foreign investor.I want you to give me your phone
number,fax for a better correspondent.
thanks you for your anticipated co-operations.
Faith Burke.

Nb,I want to quickly add that me and my family fled to Accra Ghana for
safety,so we are at Ghana western part of Africa at the moment.

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