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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.
  • elizabethbaru_2007@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Elizabeth=20Baru?= <elizabethbaru_2007@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:26:32 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: GREETINGS MRS ELIZABETH BARU


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: elizabethbaru_2007@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Friend,



I am Mrs. Elizabeth Baru from Sierra Leone. I am a widow with a chronic renal insufficiency case, a kidney disease and I am presently putting up in a guest house with my son here in Dakar Senegal.



I want to inform you of an urgent assistance I need from you. My late husband deposited the sum of $ 9,750,000.00 million (Nine million seven hundred and fifty thousad US dollars) with a Bank here in Senegal, West Africa before his death while in service as a general in the Army in my home country, but before his death, while he was in the hospital, he reviewed me about a deposit of above fund in the bank and asked me to leave for Dakar Senegal and source an Investor Abroad who will help me and our only remaining son in transferring this money to his/her bank account for investment, since our country Sierra leone is no longer save for our staying.



Because of my ill health, I am mostly bedridden in the hospital on renal dialysis, this is a system of artificially doing/performing the functions of the kidneys. By this, the excess toxic waste products in my blood are washed out. All my communication now with you is through the help of my son (Kingsley) . He has the details of what I have briefed you. If you are willing to help us, reply with your telephone number, so that my son will call you for more clerifications to you orally on the telephone.



In conclusion, I and my son have decided to compensate you for your humanly assistant with $975,000 after confirmation of this money in your account for a joint business investment with you.



Hope to hearing from you urgently.



Best regards,

Mrs. Elizabeth Baru and son (Kingsley)



- Elizabeth Baru

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