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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.
  • sefinatualmutawa@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?UTF-8?Q?mrs_=C2=A0sefinatu_=C2=A0Almutawa?= <private@privateuse.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:36:48 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: let me hear from you soon


Dear Sir,
I'm Mrs.Sefinatu Al-Mutawa, wife of late WaleedAl-Mutawa who died
along with 17 people including the UN's chief envoy to Iraq in the massive
bomb attack that wrecked the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad-Iraq
.
View the Explosion site below :
---------------------------------------------
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/19/newsid_3504000/350425
5.stm
My husband was a renowned Industrialist in Iraq , Until his tragic
death, he deposited the sum of $6.5 million (Six million Five hundred thousand
dollars) with a Security & Finance Firm in Europe for safe keeping .
My reason for contacting you is that Baghdad -Iraq is no longer a safe place
for investment for the fear of encountering the same experience of my late
husband in future since massive bomb attack are going on everyday killing
innocent people .
Based on this point I seek for your assistance as a reliable partner to do
this project with me Abroad. If you are interestedin assisting me to invest
this money in your country and becoming my partner in business, please try
to contact me as soon as possible. Endeavor to keep this transaction very
private and confidential because it's my lifetime future investment as I,m
a widow now and don?t want to be cheated .
NOTE: Kindly inform me what will be your PERCENTAGE for assisting me
?
Do include the following details in your reply .
(1) Full name and address (2) Occupation (3)Your age ,(4) Mobile
telephone number for easy Communication.
please reply to this my private mail box:sefinatualmutawa@myway.com
Yours faithfully ,
Mrs.Sefinatu Al-Mutawa.

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