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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a orphan 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.
  • nadia001@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: nadia john <missnadia306@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:50:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Please very urgent,


Dearest
How is the day?. i am very much happy to write you this
message and will apprecaite your concern and understand in this matter.
My name is Nadia John from Ivory Coast in West Africa,5.3ft tall and my age is 22 years old, dark in complexion,(never married before ) my hobbies is sports, watching movies and presently i am residing in the refugee camp here in Ghana

as a result of the civil war that was fought in my country.My late father Dr John Dikigbo was the managing director of Dredcocoa and Associates (Ltd) and he was the
personal advicer to the former head of state (Late Dr Robert Guei) before the rebels attacked our house one early morning and killed my mother and my father in cold blood shed.It was only me that is alive now and I managed to make my way to a near by country Ghana where i am leaving now.

I would like to know more about you.Your likes and dislikes.
In this camp we are only allowed to go out only on mondays
and fridays of the weeks.Its just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace i will come out here soon.

We don't have any relatives now whom we can go to all our relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person we have now is Rev Desmond Peters who is the pastor of the (Christ The Head of All Churches) here in the camp he has been very nice to me since i came here but i am not living with him rather i am leaving in the women's hostel because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women.

As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilledge to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country.I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the traggic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.
Please listen to this i don't know how you will feel about this information i'm about to disclose to you i need your suggestion and advice over this,i have my late father's certificate of deposite here with me which i will send to you latter,because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a bank , the amount in question is $3.7M(Three Million seven Hundred Thousand Dollars).

So i will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my travelling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you.I kept this secret to people in the camp here the

only person that knows about it is the Revrend because he is like a father to me.
So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it.

Remember i am giving you all this information due to the trust i deposed on you and hope that you will not betray me. I like honest and understanding people,truthful and a woman or man of vision,truth and hardworking.
All the same my favourite language is english but our language is french but i speak english very fluently, i will send you my picture as soon as you get back to me at my alternative e-mail address = nadia001@myway.com

Have a nice day and think about me.
Awaiting to hear from you soonest.
Nadia John.






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