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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.
  • kamara_john2005@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • kamara_john2005@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "john kamara" <johnkamara@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: kamara_john2005@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:16:42 +0200
Subject: FROM JOHN AND MARY

FROM JOHN AND MARY
Assylum Camp
Abidjan- Cote d' Ivoire
Tel: +22508336692
Attention: Ceo/Manager

EMAIL ADDRESS:( kamara_john2005@yahoo.fr)
Bless the day.

We are JOHN and MARY Vincent R. Kamara from SIERRA LEONE. We are writing you
from Rep of Cote d'Ivoire where we have been taking refuge after the
brutal war and murder of our parents by the rebels during the renewed
fighting in our country.


our late Father was former Director of finance /Sierra-Leone diamond and
mining corporation us to a nearby country Cote d'Ivoire to make a deposit in
one of the Security and finance house here which is sum of US $ 24 million
in Abidjan the capital city of Cote d'Ivoire.

Due to the current political situation in Ivory Coast we are seeking
for your assistance to transfer this Money and also relocate to your
country to further our education. For this noble assistance, we are
willing to offer you 15% of the total sum for your help. And been my fellow
gay I believe that you will not sit on the money when it is transfer to
your account.

I have plans to do investment in your country, I will like to invest part of
the money into these investment in your Country but, if there is any other
business that is higher or low risky in value than what I have suggested, I
will be very glad to here to your advice.

1). Real estate
2). Transport industry
3). Shares and Stocks
4). Hotels of very high standard
5). industrial production

Our late father used me the only son as the beneficiary / next of kin on the
day of deposit and also told me that I will need a foreign assistance of a
foreigner with a legitimate bank Account abroad who will stand as
co-beneficiary and partner abroad.

Please, Kindly call us on this Number +22508336692 for more discussion
or contact us on this e-mail address( kamara_john2005@yahoo.fr) for more
details.

Best Regards

JOHN AND MARY

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