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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.
  • johnemma303@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?JOHN=20EMMA?= <johnemma303@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: john_emma5@myway.com
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:49:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dear Friend,


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: johnemma303@yahoo.es

Dear Friend,


My name is Mr John Emma, the Assistant Manager Credit and Foreign bills of

United Bank for Africa(UBA). I am writing in respect of a foreigncustomer of

our bank with account number 14-255-114 whose name is Late Mr. Morris

Thompson, an american by citizen who perished in a plane crash of Alaska

Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31st 2000, including his wife

and only daughter.


Since the demise of this our customer, Ipersonally has watched with

keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no

one has come to claim his funds of US$7.5M (Seven Million Five

Hundred Thoudsand United States Dollars) which has been with our branch

for a very long time. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name

shall be used as the Next of Kin as no one has come up to be the next

of kin. And the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay

more than Ten Years, because the money will be recalled to the bank

treasury as unclaimed fund after this period.


In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal when i was

making a research on a foreigner i will use in this great upportunity.

For your assistant i will give you 20% of the total amount then 10% has

been maped out to donate to the motherless baby home, while the

remaining 70% will be for me and my partner. Upon the receipt of your

response, I will send you by e-mail the Letter of Application which you

will type sign and send back to our bank to enable us start this

transaction.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is


hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for

the smooth and easy transfer of this fund has been finalized, this


transaction will be completed within five banking days of recieving your

response, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased.

Kindly send me an e-mail signifying your decision including your private

Telephone and Fax numbers for quick communication.


Yours Sincerely,

Mr.John Emma



- JOHN EMMA

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