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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "cheque " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Morris Jacob <morrisjacob2@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 03:23:51 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject:

FROM THE DESK OF MORRIS JACOB

FROM THE DESK OF MORRIS JACOB
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Originating-IP: 86.62.5.58

Hello friend,

I am contacting you from Africa. My name is Mr. Morris
Jacob. I work with the African Development bank group, Nigeria main
branch, as foreign operations manager. Please do not get upset as to
how I got your contact. I got your email contact from the Internet.I
sincerely advise that you calm down to read below proposal thoroughly
and thereafter decide if we can do the business together. It is no
setup or one of these hoaxes from Africa. This is a real deal and I
mean every word I speak here.
A UK citizen, Mr. Norman Anderson (from
Aberdeen) has been a customer of my bank since 1988. He opened a
domiciliary account with us in June 1988. The said bank account, which
is at the moment in dormant, is in UK pounds sterling and has credit
balance of 9.3M pounds. Last transaction carried on the account dates
back to September 15, 1999. I have been the account owner.s confidant
and account officer until above date when he was last seen in the bank.
And since this time Mr. Anderson has not been to the bank nor sent in
cheque for clearing. This became a source of worry to me and prompted
my personal investigation as to whereabouts and business activity of
this customer. Result of my investigation revealed that he was into oil
bunkering and operated within West and Central Africa sub-regions.
Further investigation proved that he was one of the victims of November
1999 raid of illegal oil bunkering merchants in Malabo Island of
Equatorial Guinea. However, I continued my investigation and further
discovered that a UK telephone number mentioned in our bank information
form, which he filled when the said bank account was established,
belong to a hotel in London. This is a clear indication that he
probably has fed my bank with false information to protect his illegal
oil deals. I have not disclosed these findings to anyone else except
this message to you. After a careful study of the account file and
available data to me, I have packaged a good deal as follows; and will
wish to carry it out with you. My Dear Friend, the deal here is that
the money in this account will be approved and remitted to any
foreigner who shows up as relation to Mr Anderson provided such person
has correct information to the account. I have such needed information
and will hand it over to you as soon as we commence the transaction. I
will source all necessary documents and forward them to you for direct
submission to the bank. With my position as the foreign operations
manager we will quietly remove this money from the bank without
hitches. I don.t have any problem in regularizing all necessary
documents and transferring the credit balance of the said account to
your nominated bank account in overseas, but the problem is trust. I
have spent months in trying to get an overseas reliable contact. It is
worthy to note that people are unreliable these days and even derive
joy in telling lies. On this ground I request your unreserved but
sincere cooperation devoid of greed in carrying out this transaction so
that no one amongst both of us shall defraud each other at the end. I
am prepared to split at 60%---40% for you, provided that mine (60%)
will be intact at the end. Please get back to me via email as a matter
of urgency or call me on my private telephone line 234 8030404613 so
that we can talkmore about the business.

Awaits for your expected co-
operation.
Best regards,
Morris.




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