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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:
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • johand56@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "Johan Anders" <johanders56@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johand@moomia.com
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:07:19 +0000
Subject: ...Your Support


From: Johan Anderson

Greetings sir,

My name is Johan Anderson. By this mail, I seek your partnership on trust to
my goal as expressed bellow. However, I sincerely appologise for any
inconvenience this mail might cause should you think otherwise of my
approach.

Am a private auditor from South Africa, I was recently
engaged by a bank in Lagos, during the course of my auditing at one
of their branches I discovered an account holding USD35.7 million that
has been domant for almost five years. From my investigations, the
monies acrued from over-invoiced contract payments to foreign
contractors by some of the country's top government officials who were
incharge of award and payment of the contracts. From my findings, those
that influenced the inflation of the costs intended the excess for
themselves. But were sacked before they could retrieve the monies from the
account thereafter for fear of the government.

As it were, now, some officials of the bank wants to claim the money but can
not do so on their own for security reasons. Hence they approached me with
their intentions and after much considerations I foresee no risk, so I have
decided to go along but I can not claim the money directly because of my
position with the bank.

After careful considerations and consultations with them, they decided
that I should get a trustworthy foreigner to front as the owner of the
account(money), with their position get the money transfered out of the
country through one of their off shore affiliate banks. Necessary paper
works to facilitate this shall be Arranged. Since no one is aware of
these monies, there is no risk.

You shall have Thirty Percent (30%) of the total sum if you do the fronting
and help as necessary.
Send me your response to johand56@yahoo.fr or johand56@walla.com for
more details.

Anticipating your cooperation and support.

With regards
Mr. Johan Anderson

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