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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)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found 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.
  • paulimoh20@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "paul imoh" <paulimoh_33@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: paulimoh20@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:22:16 +0100
Subject: READ AND GET BARCK TO ME

From the Desk of:Mr Paul Imoh,
GM, Accounts-Banking Division (South)
African Continental Bank Plc, Nigeria.

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr.Paul Imoh,General Manager, Corporate and Investment Banking
Division(South)with African Continental Bank Plc,Lagos-Nigeria.I came to
know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company to handle
a confidential transaction on behalf of myself. As a matter of fact,I got
your information from the international affairs commission.

l write in respect of a foreign customer with our Bank,who unfortunately
lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed
on 31 January, 2000, including his wife. Since the death of this our
customer , I have kept a close monitoring of the deposit records and
accounts since then.

Nobody has come forward to claim the money in his A/C as next of kin to the
late customer. The total amount in the account is US$15.5 million and it is
a domiciliary escrow bank account. Also the funds can only be released to a
foreigner.

As it stands now, there is nobody in the position to produce the needed
information other than my very self-considering my position in the
bank.Based on the fact that all the family perished in the same flight
accident, leaving no one to put claim of the deposit as the next of kin,so I
am seeking for your co-operation to present you as the next of kin, and
arrange for the release of the funds to your honour for our mutual benefit.

I am willing to share this money with you in the ratio of 70-30%.You shall
have 30% of the funds and I shall have the rest (70%) I hope this is a fair
sharing?I look forward to hearing from you urgently so that we can proceed
accordingly.I wait for your urgent response. Please get in touch with me by
my {email paulimoh20@yahoo.com} to enable us discuss further.


Thanks and best Regards.
Mr Paul Imoh.

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