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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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• 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.
  • evansfida@aim.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Evans Fida " <evansfida200@aim.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:06:37 -0800
Subject: Hello

Hello

My name is Evans Fida from Ghana, We are small scale gold mining company
in Ghana. first of all, I will like to brief you more about our mining
company. My father is the owner of the mining company ( but right now he is
very old and partially paralyzed at years. As a result of my father's ill
and weak health, I am the first son of my father and now I am managing the
mining company. The land of the gold mining site is about 397 s/q to 400
acres of land.

Please, I decided to contact you on the basis of trust and for the
inheritance of the family tradition to continue. When my father was very
active we use to get 22+ Cerate of alluvial gold dust which we will refined
every week, we get 55 kilos of AU Gold Dust for the company, but due to my
father's condition for the past two(2)years now, and bad equipments .Our
production has been reduced from 55 kilos to 35 kilos weekly, the reason is
that, our mining equipments are very old and outdated and the skill and man
power my father depend on is no longer functioning.

But have been able to maintain regular supplies to our potential clients
and our company has a hallmark of supplying the best alluvial gold dust. So
I am looking for a foreign partner,who will assist providing technical
assistance on a partnership basis and will be interested in buying our gold
dust so we can use the money to purchase equipments for effective
productivity.

I am proposing to you now, to be our foreign partner in help me sell my AU
Gold Dust by assisting me pay for the shipment of gold dust 35kgs which , I
will like to ship to your country for you to sell it for me. I am seeking
your assistance because; I need you to help me establish international
market for my gold dust.

I await your urgent and favourable response in anticipation of our business
relationship.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Evans Fida
evansfida@aim.com

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