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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348034128505 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • johnsonezeh20066@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Johnson Ezeh" <johnsonezehm10@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: johnsonezeh2006@myway.com
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:17:43 +0000
Subject: I need Your Help.

From: Barrister Johnson Ezeh
Phone:234-803-4128505

Dear Friend,

I am Barrister Johnson Ezeh , a solicitor at law.

I am the personal attorney to late Mr. Robert Chapman the African Area
Director of SIL International, who unfortunately died in the crash of Kenya
Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30 2000. You will read
more stories about the crash on visiting this
website,news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html and also in
this website, where Chapman's company talked about his death in the Kenya
crash. You shall as well find the pictures of Chapman and his wife there.
Mr. Chapman Hailed from Hamilton, Ontario Canada.

Since the death of Chapman, I as his personal attorney, have made several
enquiries to locate his only surviving relation, without any success. I came
across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching for
Chapman's relations, so I decided to contact you for this project. I am
contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the wealth left behind
in a fixed deposit account by Robert, before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by UBA Bank where my client operates an account worth
$USD7.5 Million Dollars. The board of UBA Bank has issued me a notice that
after 2 months from now and no next of kin shown up for the claiming of the
said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable.

Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating Robert's relatives
for sometime now,it on this note that I seek your consent to present you as
the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are
a foreigner, so that the proceed of this deposit valued at $USD7.5 Million
Dollars can be released to you for our disbursments.

I and my team have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum,opon sucessful
remittance of funds into your bank account,5% has been set aside to cover
all expeses incurred both local and international, during the course of this
transfer.,while 70% will be for me and my team.All requires is your honest
cooperation to enable us see this business successful. I guarantee that this
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from
any breach of the law. Robert was a very good man and it is not wise for me
to allow his hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of UBA
Bank.Further details awaits your response by email. PLEASE, TREAT
THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET. Do not hesitate to include your private phone
and fax number,when replying this proposal,you can also email me on this
alternative email address:johnsonezeh20066@myway.com

Yours faithfully,

Barrister Johnson Ezeh (Esq)

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