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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.
  • email.stellasuleh011@aol.com

Fraud email example:

From: Stella Suleh <stella_suleh03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <stellasuleh011@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:34:57 +0000
Subject: LETTER OF ASSISTANCE



Dear Sir/Ma,

LETTER OF ASSISTANCE

My name is Stella Suleh. I am 16 years of age. I am a Secondary School girl at the final year of my secondary school. I am the only surviving daughter of Gen. Ahmed Suleh of the Republic Democratic of Congo. My late father was a rich Gold and Diamond dealer. My father during the last Military regime was put in jail for his fight for human right. This led to the problem in Republic of Congo now. He was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, during this period, he died last year.

I am the only surviving daughter of my late father. Before his arrest, he left some deposit of Gold and Diamonds in a village here in Republic of Congo. These goods are not known nor seen by anyone in this country except I and my father.

I am in search of a reliable person to assist me in transporting these goods out of the country and sell them and assist me to open some investments in a good country. I am yet a child and I am still in my Secondary School years. Please I only needed someone honest and trust worthy that I can trust. Please if you know that you can assist me, I can show you all that I have for this, but I will have to make sure that you are trust worthy before I will disclose any information to you.

I dont want anyone to know about this as these goods are stored in a farm and it may be bad if people knows that something like that is in the Farm. I need to do everything to get these goods out of this country because there is a problem in Congo now and everybody is leaving the country that is why I am contacting you for assistance now on how to take them out of here before the rebels or government will discover it.

I will wait your response to this Email.stellasuleh011@aol.com
Yours sincerely,Stella Suleh
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