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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:
  • "huge deposit" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • sanni_adamu60@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • sanniadamu60@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?sanni=20adamu?= <sanni_adamu60@yahoo.dk>
Reply-To: sanniadamu60@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:46:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: GOOD DAY


Jeg har en ny e-mail-adresse!Nu kan du e-maile mig på: sanni_adamu60@yahoo.dk

FROM BARRISTER SANNI ADAMU

OF SANNI & CO CHAMBERS

LAGOS-NIGERIA





Dear



I am Barr. Sanni Adamu, An Attorney at Law and Senior Advocate Of

Nigeria (SAN).I am the personal Attorney to Late Engr.A Douglas, A National

of your country, who used to work with Chevron Development Company in

Nigeria. Herein after shall be referred to as my Client. My client then

decided to invest in another lucrative business by importing Textiles

and Automobiles in the Benin Republic from another neighbouring country

here in Africa.



On one of my clients numerous trips was unsuccessful as my client and

his family died in the ill-fated plane crash involving a Boeing 727 UTA

chartered flight that took off from Cotonou,Republic of Benin and

crashed into the Atlantic ocean on Thursday, 25 December 2003. And about 111

passengers were killed. For details of the plane crash, please visit:



www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash



Since then I have made several inquires to the Embassy to locate any of

my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After

these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name

over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted

you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and

property Left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared

Unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged.



Particularly, the Bank manager where the deceased had an account valued

at about (US$8.5M) Eight Million Five Hundred United States Dollars has

issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin or Have the Account

confiscated within the next 21 working days. Since I have been unsuccessful

in locating the relatives for over some months now,I then seek your

consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have

the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at

(US$6.5M) Six Million Five Hundred United States Dollars can be paid to you

and then you and me can share the money.



First of all, I am going to give you any substantiating information you

may need concerning the legality of this transaction and about my

humble self. Do not be scared about this transaction, it is a legal

business. I am a respected attorney in Nigeria. You can log on to



www.nigerianlawyers.com/Rex.Shakarho.htm



and see my name in the listing of registered legal practitioners in

Nigeria. Number 359 All necessary legal documents will be in place to back up any claim we

may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see

this deal through. I Guarantee that this will be executed under a

legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the Law.Please

do get in touch with me through this mailbox: sanniadamu60@yahoo.com

For more details, once I have your consent and trust then we can

proceed immediately. Your anticipated response is urgently needed.



Yours Faithfully,



Barr. Sanni Adamu (Esq.) LLB (HONS) BL. Sanni & Co.

Principal Partner.




- sanni adamu

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