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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:

• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348064197587 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • biszonline@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "info@ kamtex.com" <biszonline@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:35:36 +0000
Subject: urgent ecowas contract supply

KAMTEX INVESTMENT CO, LTD.
137 CLIFFORD ROAD
ABA, ABIA-STATE,
NIGERIA.
TEL/FAX: +234-8064197587.
DIRECT COMPANY E-MAIL ADDRESS: biszonline@hotmail.com

Dear Sir,
Your good name and address have been recommended to us as an authorized
manufactures/exporters of various items from your country. To introducing
our selves to you, we are agent/consultants, wholesaler distributors,
manufacturers representative importation general.

Presently we are actively engaged in sourcing of the under listed items for
an urgent contract supply to the Economic Community of West-Africa
States(ECOWAS)and we have been in this line of business for many successful
years satisfying our numerous customers and government with all their needs.
Our recent expansion and desire to promote trade and industry in your
country has afforded us the opportunity to contact your esteem company for
an urgent contract supply of the under listed items to the ECOWAS.

Renew Medical Equipments,Furnitures,cars,Tires,Agricultural Tractors,
Building Materials,Rice,raw materials, Pharmaceutical
Products,Beverages,T-Shirts/Polo,Electronics,Cameras,valves,Fax Machines,
Food Items,Industrial Machines, textile/industrial
equipments,chemicals,Sanitary Wares plastic,and general goods from your
country.

Please if you can supply us with the above listed items, do not hesitate to
inform us by mail so that we can stop further negotiations with other
foreign companies for an urgent supply of the captioned items.
Looking forward hearing from you.

Best regards,


KAMTEX INVESTMENT CO, LTD.
137 CLIFFORD ROAD
ABA, ABIA-STATE,
NIGERIA.
TEL/FAX: +234-8064197587.
DIRECT COMPANY E-MAIL ADDRESS: biszonline@hotmail.com

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