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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: Letter From Ousmane <o_k1978@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:48:30 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear Good evening
Dear ,Good evening , how are you ? i guess you are fine i pray .
Please i want to discuss important matter with you confidential .First i must =
introduce my self to you before any thing , Well my name is Ousmane Konate =
from Mali country , i am son of Late Engineer Diop Konate who was =
assassinated by unknown hired gunman on his way back home from contractors =
meeting .
Please i will tell you that i am serous in fear writing this letter to you , =
because we have never meet before or know each other before .
But in other save hand , i prefer to explain to you about my now problem for =
safety of my very self and my hope in life , mostly for security reasons here =
in Africa .
Please lets us know each other very well before transacting any business =
that involves money. I prefer it better if you can visit me here in Africa =
and you know me very well so that both of us will travel to meet the Finance =
company in the country where my father deposited his money for his future =
investments .
My father save big amount of money Worth's $19.700.000.00 ( Nineteen =
million seven hundred thousand united state dollars )
I want you to be honest to me in the presence of GOD , i want this money to =
be transfer for investments in your country for any good business you know =
that can make more profits , and also you will help me to come over there and =
live to continue my education .
I will be happy if my honest truth to you shall be a future glory =
relationship .
The reason i want us to meet face to face is to assured you every truth of my =
words, by to show you all the original documents of the deposit that cover =
this money so that you will trust and believe me ,then we discuss how much =
will be your share from this money for helping me ,but in my honest mind i =
will give you 30% of this money after the money transferred to your accounts =
in your country and you must keep this confidential , so that no one from =
Africa or in your country will know that such money is in our control . you =
are to take good control and protect my share of money into investments in =
your country to avoid much tax payments.
Again if you don,t have time to come now , i can still send the documents =
and the contacts to you so that you will contact the Finance bank and verify =
from the bank first my honesty.
I waits for your reply to discuss more with you as soon as you are ready to =
help me ,
Please feel free to ask any question you want to know about me .
Yours Sincerely .
Ousmane
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