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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • jorgearroyo@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "JORGE ARROYO" <generalarroyo@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:30:05 +0000
Subject: MESSAGE FROM GENERAL.JORGE ARROYO.

I am the confidant of the Ex-President of the Ecuador (President Lucio
Gutierrez) who was recently removed from power and presently granted
political asylum in Brazil with strict instruction not to leave Brazil.
You can see link below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4467389.stm

He has secretly informed me to seek for a genuine and kind hearted person
who will be able to claim and invest the sum of $35.5Million United
States Dollars which he had secretly deposited with a private financial
organization in Europe before the incident that resulted in his fleeing for
asylum. The new Government is trying all efforts to seize all funds that
belong to the former President Lucio Gutierrez. Your assistance in now
needed to lay claim to this funds since it was deposited in the name of a
"Foreign Partner" Fictitious. I personally will not be able to handle such
transaction now since I am still a serving officer in the country's army but
as a confidant of the former President Lucio Gutierrez, I am ready to help
him seek for help

I request that you provide me with your full names, contact
address,occupation telephone and fax numbers and once this information is
received I will provide you with the necessary and relevant documents that
will put you in place as the original owner of the money. Mr. Lucio has
already instructed that 85% of this money will be for him while the
remaining
15% will be for you and I can assure that the transaction is risk free. Upon
your response, I will introduce you to an attorney who will provide you with
guidelines and assistance too. For now I will suggest that all
correspondence should be via Email for purely security reasons and no doubt
this proposal will make you apprehensive

Please, I employ you to observe utmost confidentiality and be rest assured
that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because we
shall require your assistance to invest our share in your country.

Your timely response will be awaited via Email:jorgearroyo@myway.com

Best Wishes
Gen.Jorge Arroyo

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