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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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• 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.
  • brown@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "TONY MARK-BROWN" <tony2006_brown@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: tony55_brown@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:11:39 +0400
Subject: BE OUR AGENT

FROM---- ---- MR TONY MARK-BROWM
MARK LINK MANUFACTACTURING COMPANY LIMITED LONDON.
No 8 Clarendon Cross and 8 Elystan St.London.
Tel:-----------+8821633327703
Private Email--:tony55_brown@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Sir,

We got your mail contact from the directory . There is a business we want to transact with you.My name is Mr.Tony Mark-Brown, The manager of (MARK LINK MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED) based in london.
There is a product my company needs from Dubai United Arab Emirates,but we are having problem from the owner of the stone due to language issue and other logistics.

Our Company deals on constumes such as Diamond,gold, Precious Stones.etc We have been purchasing the product from Saudi-Arabia,but it is very scarce now and we got an information that somebody has it in Dubai. When we call the owner of the product he will be answering us in his Arabic language: 'TATAMALEKU TATAMALEKU' and we dont understand what it means.This is why we want a reliable company/person that will link us to the man and act as a broker.

The name of the man is:-Mr AHMAD AZIZ. HIS phone number is:-971505318607 . We want you to call the man and confirm if he has the product, the product we are talking about is PRECIOUS STONES ,They are of different types but the one we want is CRYSTAL QUARTZ AND GRANNET The rate we use to buy from Saudi Arabia is $400 per gramm and we need up to 5 kilos.

Kindly Assist us to mediate with this dealer and know if the man has up to 5 kilos and for each One gramm that we are purchasing we are adding 10% for your assistance please immediately you confirm this , call us back with this number: 008821633327703- So as to enable us arrange for our purchasing manager to come with cash and buy the product.

We are waiting for your call so as to arrang for Visa.

Sir, we are urgently in need of the product because we have sudenly stopped production due to lack of materials in our Company.Once you confirm it, we will be coming twice in a month.

Please do make this inquiry and get back to us for immediate purchase because this is a business that will be continous if we can make this first purchase.

Thanks
Mr. Tony Mark-Brown.
(MARK LINK MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED).

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