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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.
  • onmudchinguri@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "just" <justicehass@aim.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hastmany@aim.com
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:49:36 +0100
Subject: hi

i am 26 years old national of Zimbabwe

I want to open a gift shop in your country and I need
you to help me for two things, so that I can be able
to open the gift shop there, I will like to give you
brief detail of the money I want to use for the
business, so that you will understand me better.

Two years ago my father deposited some amount of money
with a company in Ghana and the money was deposited
with a conditions, the conditions are

(1) without my father foreign partner the money will
not be release to me, this condition was given by my
father because him did not want me to invest in Africa
because of the economic and political instabilities in
Africa, my father lost money on diamond business in
the democratic republic of Congo that is why him did
not want me to invest in africa.

(2) The company demanded the source document must be
tender on retrieval day of the deposited money, my
father told the company the money him deposited with
them was derive from a government contract


So, please I want you to stand as my father foreign
partner, because without the foreign partner of my
father the company will not release the money for me,

Secondly, I want you to help me to get a document to
cover the source of the money from your country
because I am not having the money to acquire the
document here. I am financially handicap to me in
Ghana, any amount of money you spend will be pay back
to you as soon as the money is claim from the company,
and for your assistance you will be having 25% share
of the gift shop. Please I am begging you to help me,
I do not have anybody here to help me, as soon as I
have hear from you I will send you the document my
father use to deposit the money.
mail me onmudchinguri@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks

Justice Hasse

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