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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (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.
  • davidowo3@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "owo david" <missowod042@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: davidowo@sify.com
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 16:01:05 +0300
Subject: From David Owolabi

From David Owolabi
B. F. A.i.c.i BANK
Abidjan Cote d'ivoire .
Tel:+22501022759.



Dearest one,



Compliments of the season and how you are today I hope fine. Before I
proceed I would like to introduce my self to you. My name is Mr David
Owolabi, a staff of the above BANK.I have urgent and confidential business
preposition for you.



On September 2nd 1998, an oil contractor with the ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE
National Petroleum Corporation MR Salama, Magda, made a numbered time
(fixed) deposited for twelve calendar valued at US2M in my branch. Upon
maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no
reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contact employers COTE D'IVOIRE National Petroleum Corporation that MR
Salama, Magda, died in plane crash along with his entire family.



See below

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/

On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all
attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further
investigation and discovered that MR Salama, Magda, did not declare any next
of kin in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paper work.
This sum of US$2.000.000.00 is still sitting in the Bank and the interest is
being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one
will come forward to claim it.

According to the ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE Law, at the expiration of 8 years the
money will revert to the ownership of the COTE D'IVOIRE Government if nobody
applies to claim the funds. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like
you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to MR Salama, Magda, so
that the fruits of this old man labour will not get into the hands of some
corrupt government officials.



As an Accountant and a staff of this Bank, What we have to do is simple if
you ad heir to my instructions. You will send to me your complete names,
address and information’s which I will secretly programme in the computer
account file of late MR Salama, Magda, in our bank as his registered
associate before his death and who is entitle to inherit the deposit encase
of his death. When this money is paid into your account, you take 50% share
of the total sum and 50% will before me.



You will also help me to invest my owe share in you country. I will give you
more details upon receipt of your response in my private email
davidowo3@sify.com

Looking forward to see your urgent response.

Best regards,



David Owolabi.

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