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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 us 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "former president of liberia" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • fedinandwilliams2@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "fedinand williams" <fd.williams@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fedinandwilliams2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:56:13 -0500
Subject: URGENT REPLY

GOOD DAY
My name is mr fedinand williams. I am the General manager Eco Bank
International plc Marina Branch Lagos Nigeria. I am the accounting officer
in charge of Mr. Abubakar Abdulraheem accounts.I got your e-mail address
from the Foreign Services Department of our Foreign Affairs Ministry.
My purpose of writing you is to ask for your bank account where we can
successfully secure the sum of ($10 Million) Ten Million, US Dollars. For
your information, Mr. Abubakar Abdulraheem deposited the sum of ($10
Million) Ten Million, US Dollars in our Bank as a Muslim Development Fund.
But in private he told me as his accounting officer that the money was his
personal money which he made as Mr. Charles Taylor frontman for his vast
diamond business.
Mr.Charles Taylor was the President of Liberia before he was forced out of
power by Rebels. The account holder came to Nigeria on exile with Mr.
Charles Taylor( the former president of Liberia)in 2002. Unfortunately, he
was murdered along with his family by Rebels shortly after opening the
account when he went back to Monrovia , Liberia to bring his family over to
Nigeria because of relationship with Mr. Charles Taylor. Since then, the
account has remained dormant.
Now, Mr. Charles Taylor has been arrested and taken to War Crimes Tribunal
in Seira-leone for trial over his alleged role in committing crimes against
humanity. The Nigerian Government has followed up on this by expelling all
the people who came with Mr.Charles Taylor from the country. This means that
the money is just lying there in the bank's tilt.
The Management of my Bank has held a meeeting in this regard and mandated me
as his accounting officer to look for late Mr. Abubakar Abdulraheem's Muslim
group to come and claim the money.However, I alone know that the money
belongs to Mr. Abubakar Abdulraheem and not to any Muslim group. So now I
want you to stand as one of the members of the Muslim group to enable us
claim the money from the Bank.If you are interested to stand as one of the
members of the Muslim group, I need the following information from you:
1. Your private phone number and fax number
2. Your full name
3. Your home address which I personally need because I do not know you
too well before now,only that I decided to work with you on trust,
believing that you will not cheat on me.
Note that we can conclude this transaction within two weeks from the first
day I will submit your information to the Management of our Bank. I will
give you 30% of the total amount which is($3 miilion) Three Million US
Dollars while the remaining 70% totalling [ $7 million ] seven million US
dollars after we have concluded this transaction.
Be duly informed that I will resign from banking work to come over to your
country with my family after the transfer of the fund into your
account. I will engage myself in international business since I will have a
lot of money for any kind of business.
There is no risk in this business. I will give you all information you may
need about Mr. Abubakar Abduraheem.This is 100% risk free. You need not to
be afraid bacause in as much as I would want my reputation to be protected I
will also want yours to be protected too.
I am waiting for your urgent reponse.
Best regards. MRFEDINAND WILLIAMS

PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE E-MAIL ADDRESS ___ FEDINANDWILLIAMS2@YAHOO.CO.UK

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