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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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• 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.
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  • josechamber@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "JOSEPH CHAMBER" <chamberj@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: josechamber@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:27:03 +0000
Subject: LETTER FROM JOSEPH CHAMBER

>From Joseph Chamba
Abidjan Ivory Coast West Africa
Email: josechamber@yahoo.fr

Hello

I am Mr. Joseph Chamba, former account officer of Yukon oil Ivory Coast subsidiary of Yukos Oil Russia owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky who is currently imprisoned by Russian Government due to his Political ambitions.
Yukon Oil was liquidated along side Yukos Oil by Russian Government. You might not know much about Yukos Oil company problem but you could upgrade your understanding of this through these web pages below:
<http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html>
<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mikhail_B._Khodorkovsky>
<http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/moscow/khodorkovskyinterview.html>
<http://mikhail_khodorkovsky_society.blogspot.com/>
There was 5,500,000 Euros from contract over invoicing Yukon Oil has in fix/suspense account with one Prime Bank in Abidjan Ivory Coast before the liquidation. I cleverly succeeded in shielding the amount from our account book during the Liquidation.
Now I want to present you as Sub-Contractor that executed project under one of Yukon Oil's major contractors that has been paid off. But as sub-contractor, the €5.5Million will be treated as your contract payment.
You will be required to have this amount transferred from the bank here to your foreign account as contract proceeds. We have to negotiate your percentage commission while the balance would be kept safely for me until I arrive in your country to discuss investment options.
This proposal is risk free, but you should maintain high confidentiality as I do not wish to expose the existence of this fund at any level. You have right to accept or decline but do not jeopardise my future.
If this appeals to you, please reply through my email: josechamber@yahoo.fr
Yours sincerely
Joseph Chamba

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