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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "you will be given 30%" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +27781679601 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • drjohn_martins2000@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: john martins <drjohn_martins2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:54:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FUND TRANSFER


FROM:DR.JOHN MARTINS
40 SAN JOSE CLOSE,
OFF 321 HARRISON ROAD,
JOHANNESBURG 2178
SOUTH AFRICA
EMIAL:drjohn_martins2000@yahoo.com
PHONE: +27 78 167 9601

ATTN: BELIAL ABLO
Managing Director of Investments
Thunderclapster Industries
Investment Firm LCC

My greetings,

TRANSFER OF (US$9MILLION) NINE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS

We want to transfer to overseas (US$9Million) from the Amalgamated Bank of South Africa ABSA. I want to ask you willing to work with me or to quietly look for a reliable
and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you
will never let me down either now or infuture.

I am Dr. John Martins, the Auditor General of ABSA bank South Afric.During the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in the year 1996 and since 2001 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died
without a heir; hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mrs. Evlen Moore, a foreigner and an industrialist, she died since August 2001.

And no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Mrs.Evlen Moore until her death was the manager of Diamond Safari (Pty.)
South Africa.

I therefore ask if you can be able to work with me in transferring this fund into your safe foreign account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can
not be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers licence because the former owner of this account
Mrs. Evlen Moore is a foreigner too. The money is in US Dollars .

Considering the recommendation I received in your favour by the South Africa Chamber of Commerce as regards your suitability and reliability in carrying out this
transaction, I hereby crave your indulgence to co-operate with me in this mutually beneficiary transaction. I am revealing this to you, believing in God that you will never
let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next
step to take.

Please while replying include your private telephone, fax numbers for oral discussion. Also note that upon your reply, we may opt for telephone and fax communication, as
this channel may not be safe for the transaction. With my influence and position in the bank we can transfer this money to any foreign reliable account that you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing.I must make sure i destroy all documents of transaction immediately this fund get's into your account leaving no trace to any place.

As you receive this fund in your account. I will use my position and influence to obtain legal approvals for I will apply for sick leave to enable me arrange for travel visa immediately. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 5% processing for any expenses that might arise in the cousre of the
transfer,while the remaining 65% will be my.

Please if you are interested in this transaction, contact me with the below email address and I will give you the full detail on how we could proceed.

Email:drjohn_martins2000@yahoo.com

I look forward to your earliest reply.
Yours sincerely,
DR.JOHN MARTINS.



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