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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:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • mr_alfredmambo@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Alfred" <alfredmambo_100@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mr_alfredmambo@gawab.com
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:39:34 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS OFFER

From: Mr Alfred Mambo
Accra, Ghana.

Good Day

May i clave your indulgence to solicit for your co-operation in a
mutual beneficial business opportunity which involves safeguarding
funds running into millions of United States Dollars.

In a brief introduction my name is Mr Alfred Mambo The chairman,
Contract-Awarding Committee of the Economic Community of West
African states (ECOWAS) with its fund headquarters in Accra Ghana.
I am a Ghanaian married with two kids.I got your contact during my
search for a reliable,honest and a trust worth person to assist me in
the transfer of USD 25.5, 000,000.00.This fund was a residue of the
over invoiced contract bills awarded by us intentionally for the supply
of hard/soft wares,pharmaceuticals/ medical items,light and heavy
duty vehicles, apparels and other administrative/logistics for the
ECOMOG in Sierra-Leone and Liberia during the peace keeping projects.

This deal was deliberately hatched out and carefully protected with
the cooperation and mandate of the financial director and the secretary
of the organization. We arranged and over invoiced the contract funds
supplied by different companies from different countries during the
crisis.It is our consensus to seek the assistance of a willing
foreigner to provide us with the facilities to transfer this money out
of West Africa.

The original contractors have been duly paid by ECOWAS banker through
the central bank of Ghana and finance ministry. The balance is
suspended in the ECOWAS grand account awaiting claims by any foreign
partner of our choice to receive the fund on our behalf now ECOWAS
is intending to pay all their outstanding balance of their contractors
this year as the organization is winding up its activities since the
aim of returning peace to the countries and the coast has been achieved.

Although,i am skeptical to discuss the business on the internet
owing to lots of unsolicited/spam mails on the internet these days
as i would,nt want my honourable name to be dragged to mess as mistaken
intention,so if this deal interests you i would like you provide me
with your private telephone and fax including your private email
address,with this informations application for claim will be sent to
you to fill and return back to the organization in pursuit of the claim
legally and then be forwarded to the organization for ratification and
subsequent payment,but must first assure me that the whole transaction
must be kept highly secret and confidential due to my position in my office.


You will be required to.
1) Assist in the transfer of the said sum
2) Advise on lucrative area(s) of investment, and
3) Assist in the management of same investments. Could you be kind
enough to render your services to us in this regard, you shall be
rewarded with 30% of the total sum stated above while 10% will be
used to defray any incidental charges and cost during the course of the
transaction.


I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this
If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response to my
private email: mr_alfredmambo@gawab.com

Truly yours

Mr Alfred Mambo.

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