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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:

• 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.
  • onwa4onelove@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: denis markk <denis_markk120@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:25:43 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETARY


ATTN.
l'm happy to inform you about my success in getting
those funds transffered under the compensation of a
new partiner from Paraguay.

Presently i'm in South Korea for investment projects
with my own share of the total sum.meanwhile,i did
not forget your past efforts and attempts to assit me
in transffering those funds despite that it failed us
some how.

Now contact my secretary in ghana with his direct
phone number or email address and ask him to send you
a Certified Bankers Draft of $800.000.00 US Dollars
which i kept for your as compensation for all your
past efforts and attempts to assisting me i n this
matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very
much,so feel free and get in touch with my secretary
and instruct him where to send the amount to
you.(mailing address).

Please do let me know immediately when you receive it
so that we can share the joy after all the ups and
dowm at this time,in the moment i'm very busy here
because of the investment projects which i and the
new partiner are having at hand.

Finally,remember that i had forwarded instruction to
the secretary on your behalf to receive those
money,so feel free to get intouch with him to send
the amount to you without any delay.
Name of my secretary ERIC JOHNSON.
Email below: onwa4onelove@yahoo.com.

Best Regards.

MR DENIS .


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