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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.
  • watsonhugh2005@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?us-ascii?Q?watson=20hugh?= <watson.hugh@seznam.cz>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 12:09:10 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Hello

My name is Watson Hugh, an American Citizen. I work in the credit and accounts department of African Continental Bank International, Nigeria.I write you in respect
of a foreign customer with a domiciliary account.His name is Engineer Manfred
Becker. He was among those who died in te Belleview plane crash which happened on the 25thOctober,2005 in Nigeria.
Since the demise of this our customer, EngineerManfred Becker.I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and accounts because I was the Account officer,and nobody has come to claim the money as next of kin. He had only $18.5mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code or password of the deposit particulars As it stands now, there is nobody in that
position to produce the needed information other than my very self considering my position as the A/C officer.
Based on the reason t of kin, I hereby ask for your co operation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this point I am the only one with the information because I have removed the deposit file from the safe. By so doing, what is required is to send an application laying claims of the deposit on
your name as next of kin to the deceased. I will need your full name and address telephone/fax number, company or residential, also your bank name and account, where the money will be transfer into and a copy of your passport.
I am currently in Europe fo a six months course, thou I have less than one week to
be back to my station. Trusting to hear from you, You can still check the plane
crash information at:http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/nigeria.plane/
Yours Sincerely,
Watson Hugh.
PLS COUNTACT ME WITH THIS MAIL BOX) watsonhugh2005@myway.com

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