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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.
  • fffali85@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "From Mrs. Fatima Ali" <fatimaali@seznam.cz> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:28:25 +0200
Subject: FROM MRS FATIMA ALI

Dear sir,

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not know before.
I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please consider the transaction
on its content and not the fact that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I
came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.

I would like to introduce myself as Mrs. Fatima Ali, of Repulic of Benin, widow to Late Mr. Usman
Ali (for Consular of the benin embassy in Madrid,Spain.I have been recently been daigonosed of
Cancer of the Pelvics. I am writing from my sick bed.

There is this consignment (containg US$29.5Million cash, in US$100 bills) my husband deposited
with a security company, here in Cotonou, Republic of Benin of which I am the next of kin. With my
health condition and because my husband and I have no children, I am looking for a credible person
to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. This person will apply to the company and request, from
them, the procedure towards retrieving the consignment from them.

This is on the condition that you will take 25% of the fund for yourself, 5% used for expenses, while
you will use the remaining 70% for the less previlege people in the society. This is in fulfilment of the
last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less previleged.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names and contact
information so that I will send you all the documents that the company gave to my husband when the
consignment was deposited. So that you will contact the company directly, and demand from them the
procedure towards retrieving the consignment from their company.

I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time you wll recieve the fund, but you should please ensure
that the fund is used as i have described above. I look forward to your response.

Yours,
Mrs. Fatima Ali

N/B: PLS CONTACT ME WITH THIS E-MAIL WHEN REPLYING: fffali85@yahoo.co.uk

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