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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "jabula ekeke" <stormeverover04@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:59:25 +0200
Subject: No Way To Go Home.

Address.
House 2-3622 Nakacho Meguro-
Ku- 173-0025 Tokyo 5001 .Japan.
Tel: 0081-90299-52418


My Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a assistance venture which I intend to
establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I have
gone through your profile in the internet and I wish believing in you,
because one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.
My name is Erick K. Castle from democratique repulique du Congo(D.R.C, Am a
serving soldier under Joseph Kabila government. I speak French and English
very little.

With out taking much of your time, I was sent to the gatumba boarder between
Congo(D.R.C and Burundi as squad commander against the rebel groups
terrorizing the villagers in the mining.
There we intercepted a barky car loaded with food items and I ordered my
boys to off load every thing dawn,
There we found huge amount of money in dollars in some local bags mixed with
fruits and the money amounted to fourteen million united state dollars, this
money was to smuggle by the rebel leader Colonel Jules Mutebutsi to purchase
arms in Europe through Burundi.

I diverted this money with my boys with reason and my reason is that my
mother and father past away and was buried without my consent because of
war.
My own share in that money was Eight Million Five hundred thousand US
Dollars ($8.500.000.00 which I deposited in a security company in Spain
since last year March 2006.without knowing that the rebels leader is traced
me to Spain and I was smuggled out to Japan where am now.

Could please come to Spain to assist me open am account in any of the banks
in Spain to enable me deposit this money for transferring to your account
for my project in your country.
Am ready to give you (3.000.000.00 out of the (8.5m(hence I can not expose
myself because of how I got this money and the problem facing me. you might
know that no idea of going back to D.R.C again in life.

Am looking forward hearing from you soonest.
Best Regards
Erick Kabele Castle

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