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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:
  • "liberia" (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.
  • tony_mark206@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "rhodesjones101" <rhodesjones101@terra.com.mx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 05:53:41 -0600
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED




Professor Tony Mark
Manchester G37 7FT,
United Kingdom.
tony_mark206@yahoo.com
We are Diplomats that use our immunity and status to
safekeep special and valuable packages and baggage in
trust for reputable clients that are honest and
trustworthy.

We work in collaboration with top firms and
Governments of various countries as we have earned a
name as a service whose hallmarks in reliability and
confidentiality are revered.
International missions, Fellow Diplomats and Embassies
of the world have used our services to satisfaction.

A benefactor has mandated me to get someone that can
assist her and her family in retrieving her package
containing some amount of money from a Diplomatic Corp
in Europe.
The benefactor and her children have been confined
only to their country home and all their calls and
movements are monitored, as a result,its absoultely
impossible for them to do anything as regards
retrieving the money.

Their only means of communication is via internet and
you are being contacted because your assistance is
needed in claiming the funds on their behalf.
In order to clear any misgivings or doubts that you
may have, it is imperative that I give you an insight
of who the benefactor is.

I do not know how conversant you are with events and
the fragile political situation in Liberia but it has
made consistent headlines on CNN, BBC and several news
bulletins around the world.

The benefactor is Mrs.Suzana Isaac Nuhan Vaye, wife of
the late Deputy Minister of Works in Liberia (Isaac
Nuhan Vaye) who was murdered by Taylor during the
regime of President Charles Taylor on the false
accusation and trumped up charges of trying to
overthrow Charles Taylor.

The late Isaac Nuhan Vaye raised a substantial amount
of money accrued from Diamond Sales over a period of
six years and these funds were carefully moved out and
deposited with Diplomats in Europe for safekeeping
before his assasination by Charles Taylor.
The amount accrued from the Diamond sales over this
period of six years is USD75M (Seventy Five Million
U.S.Dollars) and these funds are fully free of any
liens, or encumbrances and are clean, clear and has no
criminal origin.

The funds have nothing to do with any form of
illegality and all documentations needed to prove the
source of the funds were submitted when the funds were
being deposited and these documents would prove the
source of the funds and authenticate the fact that the
funds are clean and has no links whatsoever with
either drugs or terrorism.

For your assistance in this transaction,the benefactor
and her Children have agreed to give you 25% of the
total amount of money which is equivalent to US$18.75
Million (Eighteen Million,Seven Hundred and Fifty
Thousand United States Dollars) for your role in this
transaction which involves retrieving the funds on
their behalf from the Diplomats in Europe and all the
information needed to claim the funds would be sent to
you as soon as you indicate your interest in assisting
them as well as providing the following information to
facilitate the smooth conclusion of the transaction.

Requested Information are as follows;

1) Full Names and Address either Company or
Residential Address

2) Private Telephone,Mobile and Fax Numbers where you
can be reached at all time as these numbers are
important because they would be forwarded to the
Diplomats in order to notify them that you would be
claiming the funds on the benefactor's behalf.

You can verify the authenticity of this letter on one
of the worlds' top Newspapers below:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-15-liberia_x.htm

I await your response.

Professor Tony Mark
Email (tony_mark206@yahoo.com)

- PROFESSOR TONY MARK

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