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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.
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  • mrs_mrelian1@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mrelian mulalo" <mrs_mrelian2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrs_mrelian1@yahoo.it
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:21:29 +0000
Subject: Mrs. Relian Mulalo.


Hello Dear.

Compliments of the season. I did like to send to you the best wishes of good
health and success in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as
contained in this letter. i may not wish to disclose how I got your email
address for now. After due deliberation with my son,I decided to forward to
you this business proposal, we want you to assist us .I will give you more
information. As to this regard as soon as you reply.

I am Mrs. Relian Mulalo. I am contacting you with the hope that you will be
of great assistance to me, I currently have within my reach the sum of
3,245,000. million U.S dollars cash which I intend to use for investment
purposes.

I therefore personally appeal to you seriously and religiously for your
urgent assistance to move this money in to your country where I believe it
will be safety since I cannot leave the country due to the restriction of
movement imposed on the members of my family by the Senegal Government.
This money came as a result of a payback contract deal between my husband
Dr, Mulalo. and a Russian firm in our country.The Russian partners returned
my husbands share .Presently, the new civilian Government has intensified
their probe in to my husbands financial resources which has led to the
freezing of all our accounts, local and foreign, the revoking of all our
business licences and the arrest of my First son.

In view of this I want to acted very fast to withdraw this money from one of
our finance houses before it will be closed down.My husband deposited the
money in a finance firm here in senegal for safe keeping . No record is
known about this fund by the government because there is no documentation
showing that we have such funds.

Further more, my elder son have been in detention in the last four years
following the death of my late husband for charges of State organized murder
and corrupt practices. he was just been released by the Supreme Court after
the president brokered a deal with my family regarding his freedom. and he
is still under interrogation about my late husband's assets and some vital
documents.
Due to the current situation in the country and government attitude to my
family,I cannot make use of this money within, thus I seek your help in
transferring this funds out for investment than leaving the fund here and to
invest the money to profit my family Bearing in mind that you may assist
me.l have decided to part with 20% of the total sum.

I am seriously considering to settle down abroad in a friendly atmosphere
like yours as soon as this fund get into your account so that I can start
all over again if only you wish. I shall ask my son Lamine to come over to
your country to liaise with you. If this proposal satisfies you. please do
not let me out to the security as I am giving you this information in total
trust and confidence.
Please kindly reply by return mail and please include your personal
telephone and fax numbers. Conclusively,we have decided part with 20% of the
total sum. while 80% is to be held on trust by you until we can decide on a
suitable business investment in your country subsequent to our free movement
by the Senegal Government.

I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith.

Regards .

Mrs. Relian Mulalo.

Nb= my alternate Email is mrs_mrelian1@yahoo.it

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