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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "chukwuedo frank" <chukwuedo004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: chukwuedo002@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:37:18 +0000
Subject: IN RESPECT OF MR. BALDRIDGE Jr.





IN RESPECT OF MR. BALDRIDGE Jr.
>From the Desk of:Mr.Frank Chukwuedo
AGM, Customer & Private Banking Group
Hobbit International Bank Plc.
E-mail : chukwuedo@ukrpost.net
Dear Friend,
My name is Frank Chukwuedo AGM, Customer & Private Banking Group, Hobbit
International Bank Plc,I came to know about you in my private search for a
reliable person/company to handle a confidential transaction on my behalf.
l write in respect of a foreign customer with CURRENT A/C NUMBER
:012374-45433-1253,who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,including his
wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the money.You shall read more
news about the crash on visiting this site;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
The owner of this account Mr.Larry Baldridge Jr. an American and was a savvy
businessman taking advantage of the Internet boom and a resident of Novato,
California.Since the death of this our customer Mr.Larry Baldridge Jr, I
have kept a close monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since then.
Nobody has come forward to
claim the money in this A/C as next of kin to the late Mr.Larry Baldridge
Jr. The total amount in the account US$17 million and it is a domiciliary
escrow bank account.It is only an insider,the account owner or a next of kin
who has information about the account that could produce the Code or
password of the deposit particulars. Also the funds
can only be released to a foreigner.
Meanwhile,every efforts had been made by the management of my Bank through
the America Embassy here have tried to contact any of the deceased relation
but to no avail, as we were made to understand that he have no family and
his business associates Mr. Nina Voronoff, of San Francisco whom he joined
perish in the plane crash.Given the skeletal information available to the
Bank, it has so far been impossible to reach any of the relatives. The
option left for the Bank management is to declare the deceased account
dormant and revert the funds to trading on behalf of and in the interest of
the Bank.
May I assured you that this Transaction is 100% safe and risk-free, as i
have taken care of all necessary modalities to ensure a hitch-free
transaction. As it stands now, there is nobody in the position to produce
the needed information other than my very self-considering my position in
the bank.Based on the fact that Mr.Larry Baldridge Jr have noone to claim of
the deposit as the next of kin,so I am seeking for your co-operation to
present you as the next of kin to late Mr.Larry Baldridge Jr, and arrange
for the release of the funds to your honour for our mutual benefit.
If there is more delay in moving this money out, this money will be pushed
to the Treasury of the Bank. I am willing to share this money with you in
the ratio of 65 -35%. You shall have 35% of the funds and I shall share the
rest,I hope this is a fair sharing?
I look forward to hearing from you urgently so that we can proceed
accordingly.
" KINDLY CONFIRM YOUR WILLINGNESS TO MY PRIVATE E-MAIL:
chukwuedo@ukrpost.net " BY sending the following information for
urgent/further proceedings :
1.Your Full name
2.Your full address
3.Your private telephone and Fax number for effective communication.
Regards.
Frank Chukwuedo
AGM,Customer & Private Banking Group
Hobbit International Bank Plc
E-mail: chukwuedo@ukrpost.net

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