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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • frchukwuedo@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • frchukwuedo@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • frchukwuedo@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: chukwuedo@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:57:03 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?IN=20RESPECT=20OF=20MR=2E=20BALDRIDGE=20Jr=2E?=

IN RESPECT OF MR. BALDRIDGE Jr.
>From the Desk of:Mr.Frank Chukwuedo
AGM, Customer & Private Banking Group
Hobbit International Bank Plc.
E-mail :frchukwuedo@yahoo.it

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 savy businessman taking
advantage of the Internet boom and a resident of Novato,California.Since
the death of this our customerMr.LarryBaldridge Jr, I have kept a close
monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since then. Nobody has come
forward toclaim 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 th 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 none 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: frchukwuedo@yahoo.it"
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: frchukwuedo@yahoo.it

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