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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:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "former president of liberia" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "monrovia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • fedinandwilliams3@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "fedinand williams" <fw1williams@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fedinandwilliams3@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:36:59 -0800
Subject: very urgent reply

Dear ,
My name is MR FEDINANDWILLIAMS . I am the General manager Eco
Bank
International plc Marina Branch Lagos Nigeria. I am the accounting
officer in charge of Mr. Abubakar Abdulraheem accounts.I got your e-
mail address from the Foreign Services Department of our Foreign
Affairs Ministry.
My purpose of writing you is to ask for your bank account where we can
successfully secure the sum of ($10 Million) Ten
Million, US
Dollars. For your information, Mr. Abubakar Abdulraheem
deposited
the sum of ($10 Million) Ten Million, US Dollars in our Bank
as a
Muslim Development Fund. But in private he told me as his
accounting
officer that the money was his personal money which he made
as Mr.
Charles Taylor frontman for his vast diamond business.
Mr.
Charles Taylor was the President of Liberia before he was forced
out of
power by Rebels. The account holder came to Nigeria on exile
with Mr.
Charles Taylor( the former president of Liberia)in 2002.
Unfortunately,
he was murdered along with his family by Rebels
shortly after opening
the account when he went back to Monrovia ,
Liberia to bring his
family
over to Nigeria because of relationship
with Mr. Charles
Taylor. Since
then, the account has remained
dormant.
Now, Mr. Charles
Taylor has
been arrested and taken to War Crimes
Tribunal in Seira-
leone for trial
over his alleged role in
committing crimes against
humanity. The
Nigerian Government has
followed up on this by expelling
all the people
who came with
Mr.Charles Taylor from the country. This
means that the
money is
just lying there in the bank's tilt.
The
Management of my
Bank has held a meeeting in this regard and
mandated
me as his
accounting officer to look for late Mr. Abubakar
Abdulraheem's Muslim
group to come and claim the money.However, I
alone know that the money
belongs to Mr. Abubakar Abdulraheem and
not
to any Muslim group. So now
I want you to stand as one of the
members
of the Muslim group to enable
us claim the money from the
Bank.If you
are interested to stand as one
of the members of the
Muslim group, I
need the following information
from you:
1. Your private phone number
and fax number
2. Your full
name
3. Your home address which I
personally need because I do not
know
you
too well before now,only that
I decided to work with you on
trust,
believing that you will not cheat
on me.
Note that we can
conclude this transaction within two weeks
from the
first day I will
submit your information to the Management of
our
Bank. I will give you
30% of the total amount which is($3 miilion)
Three Million US Dollars
while the remaining 70% totalling [ $7
million
] seven million US
dollars after we have concluded this
transaction.
Be duly informed
that I will resign from banking work to come over
to
your country with
my family after the transfer of the fund into
your
account. I will
engage myself in international business since I will
have a lot of
money for any kind of business.
There is no risk in this
business. I
will give you all information
you may need about Mr.
Abubakar
Abduraheem.This is 100% risk free.
You need not to be afraid
bacause in
as much as I would want my
reputation to be protected I will
also want
yours to be protected
too.
regards .
fedinand williams
pls
reply to
my private box
fedinandwilliams3@yahoo.co.uk

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