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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • roh_dae_jung@yahoo.ie (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "rmartins" <richard38_martins@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:00:18 -1200
Subject: Re:urgent mail from me




Greetings from me and my family.
Reaching your contact was not an easy task because since I
am not
computer
literate, I ordered my son to seek a partner very far away
and he went
to the
institute of International Business to apply and he paid
them the
charges. My
name is ROH DAE-JUNG, The brother of GENERAL. ROH TAE-WOO,
the former
President
of South Korea, He was hand-picked by the ex-general Chun
Doo-hwan to
succeed
him as president in 1988 to 1993, triggering large
pro-democracy
rallies in
Seoul and other cities in 1987. In response, Roh agreed to
hold
democratic
presidential elections, making himself a viable candidate
for the next
election. Opposition supporters, in pronounced regional
voting, split
their
vote between two candidates future presidents Kim Young-sam
and Kim
Dae-jung,
making Roh the first elected president of the post-military
rule era.
Roh's rule was notable for hosting the Seoul Olympics in
1988 and for
his
foreign policy of nordpolitik, which represented a major
break from
previous
administrations.
After taking office in 1993, Roh's successor Kim Young-sam
led an anti-
corruption campaign that saw Roh and Chun on trial for
bribery. The two
former
presidents were later separately charged with mutiny and
treason for
their
roles in the 1979 coup and the 1980 Gwangju Massacre. After
serving
duly, he
was accused of mass embezzlement which ran into billions of
won because
of the
GREAT OLYMPICS 1988 which brought Korea to the world lime
light, and
was
arrested but released after long years of incarceration and
now under
scrutiny.
Before my brother's was overthrown, I secretly siphoned the
sum of 30
million
United States Currency out of Seoul and deposited the money
with a
security
firm that transports valuable goods and through diplomatic
means.I am
contacting you because I want you to deal with the security
company and
claim
the money on my behalf since I have declared that the
consignment
belong to my
foreign business partner. You shall also be required to
assist me in
investment
in your country.
I expect you to declare what percentage of the total money
you will
take for
your assistance. When I receive your positive response I
will let you
know
where the security company is and the payment pin code to
claim the
money which
is very important.we do not want the government of my
Country to know
about the
money because they will believe I got the money from my
brother while
he was
still in office as president .Once you confirm the receipt
of the
money ,I will
come over with my Children to your Country or any Country in
Europe to
start a
new life with my Family.
As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned
above is
successfully
transferred into your account, we intend to use our own
share in
acquiring some
estates abroad. For this too you shall also be our overseas
manager of
all our
properties and you will be paid based on a certain
percentage agreed
on by both
parties. For now, let all our communication be by e-mail
because my
line is
right now connected to the South Korean Telecommunication
Network
services
therefore we can not take the chances of being heard.
Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.
Yours faithfully,
Roh Dae-Jung.
Pls Reply Me on This Private Mail bOX:roh_dae_jung@yahoo.ie


roh_dae_jung@yahoo.ie


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