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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • wosuk123@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Neageplus Nnalca" <neageplus@msn.com>
Reply-To: wosuk123@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:34:46 +0000
Subject: Request for your assistance

Dear sir/ madam ,


I am Sunny Nnaka a solicitor at law. I am the Personal Attoney to Mr
Richard Ellison , who lived in Nigeria for some 8 years, and who was until
his demise my client based on engagement entered into with my chambers in
1998. Late Mark who is hereafter referred to as my client passed on April
2002, in a fatal car accident.All occupants of the vehicle including his
immediate family
unfortunately lost their lives. I contact you to secure your assistance in
claiming his estate which includes sums of money left behind by him (Mark)
to forestall confiscation and possible declaration of his account as
non-serviceable by the bank in which this money were deposited.Standard
Trust Bank where my late client had an account for a value of 8.3 million
dollars has issued me with notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the
funds confiscated and declared abandoned.

I seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased so
that the lodgments of this account valued at 8.3 million dollars can be
transferred to you by legitimate inheritance provisions as my client's Next
of Kin. This sum of money can thereafter be mutually disbursed by an agreed
percentage All legal documents to back up your claim as the deceased Next of
Kin, will be available by my chambers as witness to your status as bonafide
inheritor.I therefore solicit your honest cooperation to enable us see this
enterprise to finality. I reassure you that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

I will like you to furnish me with the following information.
Your full name
Mailing address
Phone / fax number
Age
Sex
Occupation

Please get in touch with me,Through wosuk123@yahoo.com to enable us discuss
more elaborately.

Best regards,

Sunny Nnaka.



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