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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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • desmondsoriba10@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • desmondsoriba_2005m@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?desmond=20soriba?= <desmondsoriba10@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: desmondsoriba_2005m@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:34:37 +0100 (BST)
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANT


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: desmondsoriba10@yahoo.co.in

CONFIDENTIAL



Attn,

This may appear a bit surprising to you but very

beneficial; as a matter of urgency, I am desperately looking for a foreign partner whom I can trust to handle some investment or fund movement. I am DESMOND SORIBA.The only son of late CHIEF LAWIN SORIBA who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people.



I am writing from Zimbabwe. I got your contact through a reliable source beside I am looking for honest person to transact this business with me and my Sister. We write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party- president Robert Mugabe.Because of land And farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to dispossess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including my Father (LAWIN SORIBA) who did do not support this ill-fated action.

But before the death of my Father, he anticipated some dangers and so he deposited the sum of US$30m (Thirty Million United States Dollars) in the name of me'DESMOND at a reputable security company in Ghana-Accra with the intention of using it

to open fertilizer manufacturing company among other companies in our neighbouring country (Swaziland) after his university education.

On the 29th of July, 2001, the war veterans and some supporters of (ZANU-PF) ruling party trooped into our compound and axed him(my father) to death. Since then, they have been terrorizing me, DESMOND SORIBA, but I managed to escape to a neighbouring country, Ghana-Accra as a political asylum seeker (refugee). But my position in Ghana-Accra does not permit me to open an account or run any huge financial business.

That is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so that you will assist me to invest it in your country.



Hence, if you agree to assist me, I will offer you 20% of the money for your assistance, 10% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 70% will be for our family investment in your country through your assistance. I need your urgent and confidential response.

please kindly forward us your private contact in other for us to reach you quickly as our foreign beneficiary regarding this transaction.



Best regards,

Desmond and Sister.


Pls kindly get back to us on our pravite email address, desmondsoriba_2005m@yahoo.com

- desmond soriba

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