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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:
  • "clearance certificate" (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 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.
  • kingsleymw_uk1@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Kingsley William Mark" <kingmw_uk9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kingsleywm_uk2@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:23:00 +0000
Subject: ASAP

Atten,

{HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL}
(RE: TRANSFER OF THIRTY TWO MILLION THREE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS )

I am a Staff in one of the local Banks here in London and would like to do
business with you if it is worthwhile to you. It is risk free and profit
oriented but needed to be accorded with utmost secrecy for the reputation of
those involved to be protected for security reasons.

I am the Chief Personal Account Officer to one Mr. Rafik Hariri from Lebanon
who is now “LATE”.Log on to this website: www.hariri.info
He is a London Government Foreign Contractor who resides in London
temporary. I manage his Company’s and Personal Account in our Bank as
his Account Officer.

Before Mr. Rafik Hariri’s death, he paid in a Certified Irrevocable
Bank Draft of $32,350,000.00 issued to him by the Government of London
representing all outstanding accrued contract over due payment. Mr. Rafik
Hariri instructed me to pay in the DRAFT into his new established personal
current account which the next of kin to the account was made open,(Which
means that anybody can be the NEXT OF KIN to the account and have direct
access to call for International Wire Transfer). As per instructed by Mr.
Rafik Hariri,the Certified Bank Draft was paid in to his new personal
account which was cleared and credited several weeks after his death.

Mr. Rafik Hariri trusted me so much that he kept under my custody all his
banking documentation including the new established personal current account
documents for safekeeping. Neverhtless, it is now after the sudden death of
Mr. Rafik Hariri and nobody has access to his account except me.

I am presently looking for a trustworthy person whom I will front to
represent Mr. Rafik Hariri from Lebanon’s next of kin in order to
claim the funds already in his account since nobody has the right to do so
except me and will not be questionable by the banking authority as long as
it is been done by me. This is a clean and straight forward deal that cannot
be traced after its execution as long as it is been done according to the
rule of the game.

If you are interested, I will offer you 30% of these $32,350,000.00 and you
will provide a confident account or set up a new account so that the funds
will be wired without stress. I will try by all possible means to bypass all
restrictions and embargoes laid on International Wire Transfer by London
Government to facilitate the movement of funds to the account that will be
provided by you. I will also use my connections to secure the following
documents through the Agencies involved in order to clear the funds and not
to be questioned regarding its source by your banker and your
country’s Government and finally have the funds “CREDITED”
to your account without any delay.

·UNITED NATIONS FREE TERRORISM CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE.
·UNITED NATIONS MONEY LAUNDERING & DRUGS CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE.

A Lawyer will be secured to prepare all vital court certificates to back up
the claims as the beneficiary’s next of kin. I will arrange a lawyer
on your behalf.

Kindly furnish me your: Mobile #, fax #, telephone#, for easy reach at any
particular pointing time. Also your full banking coordinates where you wish
the funds to be wired, I mean a secured and confident account.

I look forward to hearing from you and doing business with you in the near
future. My alternative email address is:kingsleymw_uk1@myway.com
Thank You.

Sincerely Yours,
Dr.Kingsley William Mark

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