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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • idrisgani300@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "william abbey" <abbeywilliam00@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: williamabbey23@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:55:00 -0900
Subject: VERY URGENT

My name is Mr.IDRIS GANI, I am the Personal assistant/Driver
to an America oil merchant based here in Nigeria by name
Mr david Hardy.But just about few months ago both of us
had a very fatal accident while coming back from the federal
capital and ever since i had been admitted in the hospital
for over three months only to be discharge just last week.
After my discharge i then discovered that my boss couldn't make it
after two days in the hospital.

While he is alive, he always insist on being single
as the best option to be happy as such he has no
family back in America .He makes a lot of money from Naigeria's oil
because he is involved in illegal oil deals with Nigerian
top Government officials.He once told me that 80% of his money goes
to charity organisation and less previllage people.
He told me once that a particular finance house that
help him to collect and disbussed his fund to whoever
he instruct them or whoever has an access to his deposit code.

Just before we travelled proir to the accident that lead to
his death,he deposited about us$5million in that finance
house but has not instructed them on where to send the fund to,
and he gave me a box to keep which i was to return to him
immediately we come back.On coming back from the hospital
i discover that the deposit document with the access code and password
is contain in that box.

Please at this juncture i need you help to help me claim this fund
from the finance house ,i'm ready to give you the codes and p/w for
the collection of the fund.Also i'm prepared to allow you have upto
40% of the fund provided you will give me back the 60% after collecting
the fund. .I believe this is a God given opportunity to get out of poverty

Lastly i understand there will be NO FINANCIAL COMMITMENT from your side.All
i need from you is absolute loyalty and trust.


kindly contact me through this e-mails:


idrisgani300@yahoo.com



Thanks

Mr IDRIS GANI

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