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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "abidjan" (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.
  • jo40mak@yahoo.ca

Fraud email example:

From: joyce kone <jo40mak@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 04:33:03 -0500 (EST)
Subject: ATTN(FROM ASSYLUM CAMP ABIDJAN IN NEED YOUR HELP)












































FROMABIDJAN COTE D IVIORE
(FROM ASSYLUM CAMP ABIDJAN IN NEED YOUR HELP)


ATTN CONFIDENTIAL

Iam mike john mark the only son of late CHIEF Herny John Mark the managing Director of Herny petroleum company in abidjan I must confess my agitation is real and my words is my bond, in this proposal. My late father was a petroleum marchant
and because of his sucess in this field also because his wealth, his business associate in the field was very envy and family friend also was against him.

After death of my mother when she was giving birth in 1984,when i was five years old(5yrs) because these my father has a great love for me.as his only son my confides a lot in me because he know that a day will come when i have manage his vast wealth but the relationship painfuly did not last.this is a story that seems like a fiction to me
but today i am facing the reality of being an orphan who is also being hunted by men of wicked principles hence tragidy does not alter fact but fact remains when
otherhopes has being shatterd.

On the year two thousand and two (2002 yr) after my father came back from a meeting he was complainig of stomach upset he was rushed to the hospitalalong the line the doctor comfirmed that he was poisend,he died two days later but before his last breath he disclosed to an amount FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5.5 million) he deposited with a bank here in abidjan.it is on this note
that I am contacting you, all I needed from you is to furnish me with your bank particulars:

1) Account name
2) Account number
3) Bank address
4) Your telephone and fax number

For you to assist me transfer this money in your private bank account, the said amount is (FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) $5.5 Million. I am compensating you with 10 % of the total money amount, now all my hope is banked on you and I really wants to invest this money in your
country, were there is stability of Government, political and economic welfare.

Honestly I want you to believe that this transaction is real and never a joke. My late father ChiefHerny John Mark gave me the photocopies of the certificate of deposit issued to him by the (BANK) on the date of deposit, for you to be clarify because, I do not expose my self toanybody I see, I believe that you are able to keep this transaction secret for me because this money is the hope of my life, it is important.

Please reply me immediately after you must have gone through my message fill free and make it urgent. That is the reason why I offered you 10 % of the total money amount, and in case of any other necessary expenses you might incur during this transaction.
N.B Try and negotiate for me some profitable blue chip investment opportunities which is risky free which I can invest with this money when it is transferred to your account, personally I am interested in estate management and hotel business, please advise me.
reply me back immediately you receive this message for more explanationAnd promisse me to be a father considering my situationan and not to betray me and
also accept me to belong to your family once again i want to have a family.

NB: my late father used me the only son as the beneficiary / next of kin on the day of deposit and also told me to look for a foreign assistant or a foreigner with a legitimate bank Account abroad who will stand as co-beneficiary and partner abroad.

Thanks and God bless
Best regards
Mike John Mark

FOR CONFIDENTIAL YOU CAN ALSO CONTACT ME WITH THIS.
( EMAI;Jo40mak@yahoo.ca)
FROM ASSYLUM CAMP ABIDJAN IN NEED YOUR HELP








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