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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447005809613 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +2348027640448 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • oluwale_rasheed@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR OLUWALE RASHEED" <oluwale_rasheed2000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: oluwale_rasheed@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:08:33 +0000
Subject: Treat with urgence

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Dr Oluwale Rasheed (Executive Director) of the credit control unit of
the Universal Trust Bank (UTB) Nigeria one of the commercial banks in
operating in Nigeria for the past two decades. Due to the recent
capitalization policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria our bank could not meet
the required minimum deposit of N25, 000,000, 000 (Twenty Five Billion)
Naira stipulated by the Central Bank and as such our bank was blacklisted
and our licensed revoked.

During our active days of our bank, the credit control unit gave out loans
for agricultural investment purposes to some firms and they loans where
supposed to be paid back by Jan 2006 but the bank was no longer functional
so they had to pay it into our corresponding bank. I received a call from
the bank last week that the funds totaling $14(Fourteen Million USD) has
been paid into our account with them but since our bank was no longer
functional the fund is now floating. I met with my colleagues in the credit
control unit and we decided to divert the fund and use it for own purpose
since there is no way we can pay it into the bank. It is based on this
reason that I hereby contact you to seek your consent if you are willing to
be part of this transaction as I and my colleagues have decided to give out
50% of the total money to you while the remaining 50% will be for us, We
have finalized all the modalities with our corresponding bank in Europe to
transfer the fund to you upon your approval that you are interested, we are
seeking your consent so that you can claim this fund as we are still under
surveillance here and as such we cant claim the funds now till the panel of
investigation concludes its valuation and assessment procedures.

If you are interested please get back to us by sending us a fax via fax
number: +44-700-5809-613 or call +234-8027640448.

So that we can discuss further and give you directives on how the
transaction will take place. We hope you fully understand and you will not
take undue advantage of the situation.

We look forward to your response.

Best Regards
Oluwale Rasheed
(Executive Director)
Head Credit Control Unit
Universal Trust Bank (UTB) Nigeria
Please get back to me here:oluwale_rasheed@yahoo.com

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