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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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  • mrohdaejung@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Roh Dae Jung" <mrohdaejung@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrohdaejung@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:32:40 +0900
Subject: I AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE

Plea from me and my family.

Reaching your contact was not an easy task because since I am not computer
literate, I ordered my son to seek a partner very far away and he went to
the institute of International Business to apply and he paid them the
charges. My name is ROH DAE-JUNG, The brother of GENERAL. ROH TAE-WOO, the
former President of South Korea, He was hand-picked by the ex-general Chun
Doo-hwan to succeed him as president in 1988 to 1993, triggering large
pro-democracy rallies in Seoul and other cities in 1987. In response, Roh
agreed to hold democratic presidential elections, making himself a viable
candidate for the next election. Opposition supporters, in pronounced
regional voting, split their vote between two candidates future presidents
Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung, making Roh the first elected president of
the post-military rule era.

Roh's rule was notable for hosting the Seoul Olympics in 1988 and for his
foreign policy of nordpolitik, which represented a major break from
previous administrations.

After taking office in 1993, Roh's successor Kim Young-sam led an
anti-corruption campaign that saw Roh and Chun on trial for bribery. The
two former presidents were later separately charged with mutiny and treason
for their roles in the 1979 coup and the 1980 Gwangju Massacre. After
serving duly, he was accused of mass embezzlement which ran into billions of
won because of the GREAT OLYMPICS 1988 which brought Korea to the world
lime light, and was arrested but released after long years of incarceration
and now under scrutiny.

Before my brother's was overthrown, I secretly siphoned the sum of 30
million United States Currency out of Seoul and deposited the money with a
security firm that transports valuable goods and through diplomatic means.I
am contacting you because I want you to deal with the security company and
claim the money on my behalf since I have declared that the consignment
belong to my foreign business partner. You shall also be required to assist
me in investment in your country. I expect you to declare what percentage
of the total money you will take for your assistance. When I receive your
positive response I will let you know where the security company is and the
payment pin code to claim the money which is very important.we do not want
the government of my Country to know about the money because they will
believe I got the money from my brother while he was still in office as
president .Once you confirm the receipt of the money ,I will come over with
my Children to your Country or any Country in Europe to start a new life
with my Family.

As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned above is
successfully transferred into your account, we intend to use our own share
in acquiring some estates abroad. For this too you shall also be our
overseas manager of all our properties and you will be paid based on a
certain percentage agreed on by both parties. For now, let all our
communication be by e-mail because my line is right now connected to the
South Korean Telecommunication Network services therefore we can not take
the chances of being heard.

Please reply to this mail box: mrohdaejung@yahoo.com.hk

Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Roh Dae-Jung.

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