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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • mustafa2007@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: sayid mustafa <mustafa_sayid50@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mustafa1@jmail.co.za>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:32:02 -0400
Subject: We need to hear from you.



We need to hear from you.

Please this is a call for help from me and my sister to you. My name is Sayid Mustafa and my sister is Alima Mustafa. I am 21 and she is 19 both are from Sierra Leone but now taking refuge in Abidjan Cote D’ivoire West Africa.
Our parents were killed in France when attending the annual meeting of farmers in France .My father Dr Malik Mustafa was a great farmer and successful business man when he was alive.

Due to the circumstance that surrounds the death of our parents because top government officials of our country are involved into this. After several attempts to kill I and my sister too we decided to ran away to Cote D’ivoire for refuge of our live and for the claim of the US$ 4 million which my late father deposited in a bank in Abidjan Cote D’ivoire.

We have been to the bank for several time for the money but the insist that they must follow the agreement they had with my late father that states the money shall only be transferred in a foreign account by his foreign associate. The bank has maid us to understand that no name was given to them as the foreign associate to my late father and we are require to provide the associate to my late father so that they will now make the transfer.

We are contacting you based on direction and trust even though we have not met nor know you to help us transfer this money into your account and help us come over to your country so that we can continue our education there and you will now direct us in the kind of investment that will be lucrative in your country.

We do not have anyone here and beside our life is in danger and we want this transaction to be done as soon as possible so that we can be out of this country. We want you to know that this is very confidential and we urge you to keep this very secretly to yourself alone.

Take us as your own children and come to our help. We are really suffering here because we cannot have access to the money until it is transferred according to the wish of my father which he did for security purpose. Please consider our plead and beside we have decide to offer you 15% of four million USA dollars for any assistance from you to make sure that this money is transferred.

We are fully hoping to hear a positive response from you. There we urge you to send us your full details information’s if you have decided to help us such as
YOUR FULL NAMES
YOUR HOME AND OFFICE ADDRESS
YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER
YOUR AGE AND OCCUPATION

We shall send this information’s to the bank and introduce you officially to them as our late father associate which after that we shall send you the documents attached to the deposit and the contact of the bank and person so that you can now contact the bank for the transfer. The question now is can we rely on you? Can we fully trust you? Can you take us as your children and guardian? We want to hear from you.

Reply me through my private email mustafa2007@jmail.co.za .I shall give you my contact number if you need to speak with me about this.
Thanks and remain bless.

Sayid and sister
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