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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.
  • fati_ahmd@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "miss fatima ahmmad." <ahmadfatiza@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: fati_ahmd@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:28:08 -0700
Subject: Help me to Invest,plz

From: "Miss.Fatima Ahmmad,.
Date: October 5, 2006
Subject: Help Me To Invest.

Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia.
Email:fati_ahmd@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Sir,

THIS LETTER IS CONFIDENTIAL

Greetings in the name of Allah, My name is Miss. Fatima Ahmmad, I am an Sudaness refugee,I just arrived Malaysia few days ago with the assistance of the United Nations from Darfur, I got your contact from the website of export directory, Though nothing much was said of you nor your company, I just picked interest to do business with you.
I managed to escape from Darfur with the documents of the fund my Father deposited in Malaysia, My Parent and two of my brothers died from injury they sustained, from the tribal conflicts that is going on in Sudan now , He was a popular foreign exchange operator in Darfur, The amount he deposited with safety firm is USD 4.5m, I want to invest this money in your country hence I contact you for assistance.
It is very clear that Sudan will never be the same again and I have no intention of going back for now, I came out with the help of Almighty Allah.I want you to confirm if you can work with me to retrieve this money out from Malaysia to your country where it will be invested, I will be ready to give you 15%.This should be kept secret because I don?t want anyone to know that am in Malaysia, secondly I don?t want the members of my Extended family to know about it.
Due to the nature of my ill health, I do frequent hospital some times, I was diagnosed of high blood pressure after the death of the rest of my family,therefore.i do check my mails in the evening.
Feel much free and send me email on the address {fati_ahmd@yahoo.co.uk }, I shall let you know the nature of investment I need and you advice me if it is your own area of business. or we can go into partnership business.
Treat this letter urgently and return to me even if you can not handle a business of this magnitude, kindly let me know so that I can look for another person, I will not make any move until I hear from you.
Your truly.

Miss. Fatima Ahmmad.

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