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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 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)
• 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.
  • jeery.kamara@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: jerry kamara <jerry.kama1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jerry.kamara@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 05:56:07 -0400
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE




From: Jerry KamaraResidential Contact; UNHCR (CAMPSECTION-101STRAND BRIDGE HOUSE 138-142STRAND LONDON.WC2R 1HH1PRIVATE EMAIL CONTACT: jerry.kamara@yahoo.comGREETINGS.CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE. I am pleased to send my compliments to you. I know that this letterwill definitely come to you as a surprise but please do accept it as arequest from a victim of circumstance; I actually came about your contactthrough the Internet directory as I was searching for a reliable,trustworthy and confidential individual who can be of aid/assistance to me.I hope my medium of contact to you will not in any way contravene yourethics of better judgement. Let me first introduce my humble self andidentity. I am jerry kamara the only (adopted) son of the late former Directorof finance, Chief Vincent Kamara of Sierra-Leone diamond and miningcorporation .I must confess that my agitation is real, and my word is mybond in this request, Since the death of my father, his immediate family(my supposed uncles) are trying to terminate my life because of theirsheer wickedness and jealousy because my late father “WILLED” all hiswealth\acquisitions to my favour as the only son but they are not happyabout this because I am an adopted child so they now see me as anoutcast who should not be entitled to any reasonable assets in the family,now before my fathers death he deposited some funds , amounting to$9m(nine million dollars ) in a foreign Bank in London(UK) because he couldnot safe keep such amount in our country’s bank because of his workstatus in government, now I have in my possession the legal copy of myfathers “WILL” and the photocopies of the certificate of deposit issuedto him by the bank on the day he made the deposit and some other vitaldocument which my late father left in the custody of his personalattorney for safety which will enable to claim his acquisitions and alsofunds in London incase of his death as his next of kin, with the divinehelp of our gardener who revealed the evil plans of my uncles to me ,he managed to help me escape from my country home (Sierra-Leone) toLondon where I am presently residing in one of the refugee camps so asto find a way to transfer this money my father deposited with the bankhere in London and start a new livelihood else where and also finishmy education .It is on this note that I am contacting you, and all Ineed from you is for you to stand as my late father’s business associateand foreign partner who wants to assist me to invest this fund in yourcountry. also you will be required to provide them with a safe offshoreaccount where the fund will be lodged into after I must have claimed itfrom the Bank ,then we will make arrangement how I will come over toyour country and invest the money where I believe that there isstability of economy and government . I will be compensating you for your trust and assistance with 15% ofthe total sum after which you will help me look out for a good bluchipbusiness where we can invest this money and run as partners. I ampresently interested in hotel business because it was what my late fatherplanned to invest the money on after retirement before he died, so pleasedo advice me on this accordingly. Once more I beg you not cheat or siton this fund once it is transferred to your account because it is myonly hope and means of survival: please do contact me through my privatemailbox ( jeery.kamara@yahoo.com) for confidentiality and introduceyourself properly to enable me furnish you with more detail in regards tothis request, bear it in mind that I have all the document that willenable the Bank transfer the money to any given account that is beenintroduced by me for the money transfer . I sincerely wish that you will be my guardian henceforth considering myage and present situation thanks and may the almighty Lord bless you. I await your prompt response Kind Regardsjerry kamara
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