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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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • planwell_cocoindustry@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: planwell_cocoindustry planwell <planwell_cocoindustry@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: plandwellcocoindustry@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 05:46:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM PLANWELLCOCINDUSTRY.PLS KINDLY GO THROUGH THIS MAIL VERY CAREFUL.


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

PLANWELLCOCINDUSTRY.

Ave 115 Rue 8, Triechville,

Abidjan.Cote d' Ivoire.

Tel: :+2250 366 2432.


Dear Respectiful one ,


We are small new firm engaged in export of goods to overseas outside mycountry.

We have won various small exports contract at one time or the other, recently we were (engaged) contracted to supply cocoa, and dried natural rubber to tire manufacturing companies in Peru, US and Europe, which was successfully done.


However, in as much as we are able to successfully carry out these supplies, we experience difficulty remitting our proceeds from the sale of these products home.

This is due to the fact that the fiscal policy in Cote D'iviore (Ivoiry Coast) is very stringent and not favorable.


Small firms like ours are not allowed before six months of operation, to open and operate a domiciliary account in foreign currencies abroad through which we would have been able to remit our proceeds home.

To this end we are totaly convience to nominate you as our partners/agent to receive our payments in their business/individual accounts on our behalf and in turn send the money directly to us.


Thus we are willing to pay you 10% of the total sum for your assistance. This 10% will not be a loss to us instead we hope to incorporate these costs in our future charges to our prospective customers overseas.


Currently we are not able to bring back home our funds in Peru, US and Europe from export we just made. We therefore solicit your assistance to help remit this money by sending your account details via: bank name, account number and account beneficiary to us may be if you don't or your are afriad you can open a new account where they can remit the money.


So that we can instruct our customers to remit those money directly to your account, or alternatively the checks will be mailed to you directly.

But mind you that we come to you with full trust and hounest and we will like you to work with us with the full trust and hounest too for the progress of this business not the down fall.


Please bear in mind, do not miss understand us, we did not ask you to pay any money to our clints.rather our clints will pay you our fund as our Agent.


Hence we are entrusting this project in your care because of your possition as a legal business tycon and we know that you will not made away with our funds.


In your reply mail, I want you to give us your Full Names, Home and Office Address, International Passport, Telephone and Fax Numbers.


We hope you can handle this project with us.


Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation.


Sincerely.

Amidu Musa

Managing Director

PLANWELLCOCINDUSTRY

- planwell_cocoindustry planwell

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