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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:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +448701309323 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • henrywilliams_associates@yahoo.com
  • sarahrobb777@yahoo.com.ph (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: s_robb2006@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:22:47 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ref=3A=20LFORD35/02SW/EPBT=2E?=

Ref: LFORD35/02SW/EPBT.

My Dear Beloved,
Please accept this my heartfelt and supposed divine directed mail to
you.Actaully
we have not met before, but i feel motivated spiritually to send you
this
mail in particular,after i finished going throgh my christian journal
today
on net.Please am loosing more strenght daily,but i really brought out
my
time to send this mail to you,i can`t really say as a human that we
are,but
i believe that i can trust you.
I am Mrs. Sarah Ann Robb from England,and my husband Mr Wilson Robb who
work with British embassy/high commission in Kenya for many years
before
he died in 2003 but we thank Lord God Almighty
that we are both dedicated Christian before he died.

I am presently in a hospital back in England for cancer of the liver
treatment,
and recently my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next Eight
months due to cancer problem so I take decision as a born again
Christian
to seek an assistance of honest,trustworthy and sincere person or
organization
that will claim and share the money US$3.5Million dollars,which been
deposited
in a security company in London here by my late husband to the
orphanages,
widow, propagating the word of God and see the house of God is
maintained
as I have no child that may inherit the money and I did not want my
husband
family members to inherit the money as they are unbelievers and they
did
not know our Lord Jesus Christ.

As the word of the Lord God teaches me in the scripture says ?help to
carry
one anothers burdens and in this way you will obey the law of Christ?
Galatians
6 vs. 2 Also in James 1 vs. 7 that visiting the widows, the
fatherless,the
sick, the prisoners and the less privileged showing them our love.
The bible teaches me also in psalm 41 vs.1-2?blessed is he that
considered the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The
Lord
will preserve him, and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the
earth
and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
If you will use the money for this purpose that I wish the money to be
used.Then
you should contact my family lawyer (HENRY-WILLIAM ASSOCITES) to
communicate
with you and prepare you an authorization letter that will empower you
as
the ownership of this fund in the security company.

(1) YOUR NAMES..............................
(2) YOUR HOUSE OR CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS..............
(3) YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE OR MOBILE PHONE NUMBERS.........

For more information and the documents. CONTACT HENRY WILLIAMS
COMPANY: LAW FIRM,HENRY-WILLIAMS ASSOCIATES.

EMAIL ADDRESS? henrywilliams_associates@yahoo.com
FAX NUMBER +44 8701309323

You should help me in prayer.
Yours sister in Christ,
Mrs. Sarah Ann Robb (WORK OF GOD from Sara.)

Please Note that a Copy of this letter has sent to HENRY-WILLIAM
CHAMBER.feel
free to email me too at my personal mail address also
(sarahrobb777@yahoo.com.ph)

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