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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
  • "can i completely trust you?" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • mamita_rose_guei@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Rose Mamita" <mamita_guei2001@she.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:44:50 +0700
Subject: HELP PLEASE

Letter from Miss Rose Mamita Guei Strictly Confidetial please.
Reply Here Please;mamita_rose_guei@yahoo.com
Hello Dear Friend,
Happy New Year & Greetings to you ! Please, forgive me if this message comes to you as a surprise and may offend your personality for contacting you without your prior consent and writing through this channel,I have a problem to share with you,this however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will. Writing this mail to you has become a matter of urgent neccessity due to the threat,intimidation and danger on my life in my own country .I therefore use this medium to appeal to you though unknown to me to employ your good conscience and come to my rescue . I believe that God has a way of helping one who is in a problem and nobody on earth was born without problem.Every problem have a divine solution. In brief ,I am Miss Rose Mamita Guei ,19years old, and the first daughter to a highly reputable business magnet (a cocoa merchant) who operated in the capital of Ivory coast(ABIDJAN) during his days, been an opposition party to the present Gov
ernment of COTE D`IVOIRE. On the 19th october 2002 my father/mother including every members of our family was murdered by the unknown "REBELS" during the time they attack our house by shooting and looting, even this is one of the things that contributed to the present crisis in my country today. "KIDNAPPED/CAPTURED YOUTHS FROM THE AGES OF TEN( 10YEARS),BECOMES SLAVES AND ARE FORCED TO JOIN THE REBELS(the new force)/ARMY(government loyalists),AND PEOPLE ARE BEEN DAILY KILLED,THEREFORE, LIFE IS NOT SAFE HERE",THANK GOD THE "UN" MISSION WORKERS and THE FRANCE SOLDIERS CURRENTLY HERE NOW!. Take a look at the start of the political crisis in my country; 1;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3993265.stm 2;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3995429.stm 3;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4487857.stm 4;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4452891Estm 3; http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/world/africa/4490596.stm 4;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4574428.stm God so kind I was out of the country with my brother,when the incident occurred, the plans of the REBELS is to kill every members of my family so that no one will rise up to revenge as time goes on. We are in the country now without any one knowing although we are stil hiding so that the unknown REBELS will not trace and get to us to kill us, like they killed all the members of our family. Why I am still hiding is to quickly move out the seven million ,five hundred thousand united states dollars(usd$7.5m) which my late father deposited to the custody of A TRUST SECURITY COMPANY here,he deposited the fund as a family treasure containing "AFRICAN COCOA SEEDS FOR EXPORT" for security reasons, as security company does not operate as bank where some one can deposit his/her money openly. Right now,I am in a
sincere desire of your humble asistance in this regards, I want you to assist us to move this fund out of Africa for our Life investment in your country. Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded! I wish to contact you on the following agreement;
(1)To give this transaction confidentiality it deserves.
(2).To assist us, invest the fund into a viable business venture as i have little or no knowledge on where to invest this money.
(3).To take me and my brother along to your country and assure our safety in your country. (4)To help us see peace and go back to school so as to finish up our educational pursit from where we stopped.my proposed course is international relation or human right law.this plan is pending because i am financially handicapped since the death of my parents.
(5).To present yourself if possible to the security company as the bonafide owner of the fund so that there will be no trace of the movement of the fund From Africa here as all the arrangement to make the changes with the security company has been arranged. (5). You will be transparent, honesty and diligence and will not be greed to divulge from the original percentage offered to you thereby requesting for increase which might lead try to sit on the funds once it is under your custody, or you try to blackmail me and my brother so that you can take the whole money alone.
(6)You will be sending some money to us from the box, immediately you recieve the box/consignment containing the money in order for us to secure the necessary travelling documents to come over to meet with you for the sharing/investing according to the percentage we will agree on. (7)Your percentage i am proposing for you will be reasonable . Now permit me to ask these few questions;
(1)Can you honestly help us as your Children?
(2)Can I completely trust you?
(3)What will you want me to give you in return/percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the money is in your account? Please, Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible. If you are interested to assist us. please e-mail me back before they kill us,so that i can provide to you more relevant information regarding to the deposit such as the contact of the security company. I would be so grateful ,if this mail would draw a favourable response from you, while i remain confident and hopeful to get through with your assistance,
i awaits your response in my private e-mail box: mamita_rose_guei@yahoo.com <mailto:mamita_rose_guei@yahoo.com> This help need utmost secrecy and confidentiality due to our condition now please.
Thanks,

Rose

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