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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:
  • "j'ai une nouvelle adresse mail" (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.
  • abdel6802@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • abdel6802@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Abdel=20Rahaman?= <abdel6802@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:59:58 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dear Friend,


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : abdel6802@yahoo.fr

Dear Friend,


How are you and your Family today? I am your Friend Mr. Abdel

Rahaman, I am the Regional manager of a Bank in Nigeria. I am married with two

lovely kids. I am a man of peace and I don't want problems, I only hope

you can assist me. I have packaged a financial transaction that will

benefit you and I, as the Regional manager of my Bank, it is my duty to

send in a financial report to my head office in the Capital city Lagos

at the end of each Business Year.


On the course of the last year 2005 Business Report, I discovered that

my branch in which I am the manager made (Nine million five hundred

Thousand United State Dollars) (USD$9.500,000.00) which my head office

are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this fund on

what we call Suspence account with no beneficiary. As an officer of

this Bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of

contacting you to assist me receive this money in your Bank account and

get some percentage of the total fund as commission after we negotiate.


There are pratically no risk involved, it will be a Bank to Bank

Transfer, all I need from you is to stand and claim this funds as the

Original depositor of this funds who made the deposit with my branch so

that my head office can order the transfer to your designated Bank

account. if you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much.

Write me if you think we can work together so that we can go over the

details, Thank you in advance and may God bless you and your Family.


I will need from you if you agree to work with me:

your Name,

your contact Address

Your phone number and Fax number for easy communication.


Please ensure to reply me through this my address: abdel6802@earthlink.

net or abdel6802@yahoo.fr


Regards.

Mr. Abdel Rahaman

Regional Manager,




- Abdel Rahaman

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