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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.
  • mag_g225@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: margaret giwa <mag_g225@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ma_giwa@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:42:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: OUR FUTURE IS AT RISK


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mag_g225@yahoo.com

Dear Friend,


I greet you in the name of our lord


I send you this e-mail with all humility and every seriousness of heart; believing that you will be the instrument God will use to help me and my two daughters in this predicament due to the unfortunate death of my husband.I plead with you to be patient with me , i feel very pleased to contact you for some assistance and business relationship not withstanding that we don,t know each other before. but i pray that God will touch your heart to know that we are created to help one another .


I am Mrs Magaret Giwa, my late husband was a loving,caring and hard working business man who died unfurtunately while travelling to his home town in Ondo State Nigeria in a ghastly auto crash.My predicament started with the tradition of property-grabbing on my late husband's properties by his family. What followed after was that I and my children were asked to vacate my matrimonial home by my late husband's brothers so that they can absorbed with all my late husband's properties a month after his funeral, relying on tribal traditions (beliefs and custom of their clan) just because I did not bear a male child for my husband before his death whom they believed would have inherited his estates and also take over the managment of his business.


This suddenly destitute me as a widow and had to scrambled to get help from a member of our Church who through her humane kindness, gave us (I and my two daughters) an apartment to lay our heads in her house. But unfortunately and unknown to this wicked family my late husband deposited the sum of ($9,690,000.00) united states dollars in a bank here in my country which my late husband intended to use in establishing business abroad before his sudden death. The truth of the matter now is that I cannot make use of this funds here due to the forces surrounding me concerning my late husband's family hence the reason why I am soliciting for your assistance to help me and my children out of this situation before my late husband's brothers gets to know where we are staying and equally seized the documents to this funds from me. because i was fortunate to have left the house with all the vital documents relating to this fund. I strongly believe that the only way i can secure this fun!
d is to transfer it abroad for safe keeping and i have also met the branch manager of the bank where this money was deposited and he reliably infomed me that i can come for the claim of the fund and he also told me that the best way i can secure this money for myslf is to transfer it to someone abraod since my husband intended to invest the money overseaes .


Please all i want from you is to act as my husband,s co-partner and also provide a bank account in your country where my bank will transfer this fund to and as soon as this fund is transferred to you ,I and my children would then make appropriate travelling arrangement to come and meet with you in your country so that i can be able to invest this fund base on the advice i get from you . I have mapped out and agreed that if you can help me in this matter,you will retain 20% of the total funds, while 70% will be for me and my children and 10% will be for any expences made in the course of transfering this fund, to be able to help me, kindly send me your contact information for easy communication. I thank you most sincerely, for your time and your anticipated assistance and I look forward to hearing from you soon. May Almighty God bless you!


Mrs. Margaret Giwa

- margaret giwa

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