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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • suzanpretty@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "suzan" <bigchirld@netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:24:46 -0400
Subject: Urgent

FROM BONGARO OF PACE
RUE 1000 HENRI AV.
ILOT 88, LOT 0081 COCODY -ABIDJAN
ABIDJAN- IVORY -COAST.

ATTN: Dearest One,

Compliment of the day to you and your family,

I got your contact address through your country web directory on my
desperate search for a reliable person/company for partnership
investments
overseas,after going through your profile?
,
By introduction I am SUZAN WAHLER JIMBARG I FROM Sierra Leonian by
birth
and the ONLY DAUGHTER of late Mr.& Mrs. WAHLER JIMBARG ? please kindly
permit ME to inform you of MY desire of asking you to be MY guardian
or a
foster parent to ME and then help ME out in what i was about to tell
you

I'm SUZAN .(20) YEARS. i am the only daughter OF Late Mr. & Mrs. WAHLER
JIMBARG MY father was a wealthy cocoa and diamond merchant based here
in
Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to
death by
his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip.

MY mother died when i was babies. Before the death of my father on July
2002
in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me by his
bed
side and told me that he has the sum of eleven million five hundred
thousand United State Dollars USD ($11.5,000) deposited in a suspense
account in one of the local banks banks here in Abidjan. He told me
that he
used my name SUZAN as the next of Kin in depositing the money.

He then strongly advised me not to seek for an assistance in the
investment
of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend's here but to seek
for a
foreign partner from any country of my choice(outside , Cote D'Ivoire)
that
Will assist me in the wise investment of the money.I have since left
the
money in the bank with the view to make use of it for investment
purposes
after my education carrier here.


But as you may be aware by now,the country i was residing with my
parents
before their death (Cote D’Ivoire) is presently having political
crises.
Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country
killing innocent citizens everyday and making efforts towards the
capture of
the commercial center of the country, Abidjan where i am now.


For this ugly development in this country, i have now decided to take
quick
actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it
is too
late to do that, for the safety of my lives and that of the money
bcbecauset
is part of what am living for now. i now want to transfer it out and
use
it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel
management
according to my late father's advice before his death. Because of this
am
honorably seeking
for your assistance in the following ways:


(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the
money
into your bank account or any nominated account by you. (2) To make
arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education
and then settle there papermanentlyBR>If you accept to stand as my
guardian or foster parent to me , i need
not
discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money
as
yours and then assist me invest it. But if you still want a
percentage, i
am willing to offer you, 15% o of the total money as compensation for
your
assistance.

As soon as i receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my
proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, i will then
give
the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the
money
into your account

or any nominated account by you, as i want to come over to stay with
you
papermanentlyThe bank will then contact you and communicate with you on
the
transfer. You shall then be giving me information on when the transfer
will
be over. i shall also send my pictures to you and shall also need
yours
too. No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please i beg you
to
keep this highly secret for my safety, as i believe that those that
killed
my Daddy are
Still after me. i will appreciate to here from you.please get back to
me
through this email
suzanpretty@netscape.net


Thanks and God bless you,

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