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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: wloloso 50 joy <wloloso50joy@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:50:08 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CAN I RTUST YUO


My name is miss,wloloso joy from Kenema Northern Province,Sierra Leone.
Please I would like you to assist me as urgent as you can, before they kill me.My father is a wealthy cocoa merchant. Trouble began early last year when my father's associates began suspecting that my father is not givingn prope accounts of all the tonnes of cocoa being cultivated by local farmers in some villages. This mistrust deepens between 28th March, 2004 when they discovered avery large some of money my father deposited with a Bank here in Senegal in West Africa. As a result of this discovery and the envy on the money he was poisioned by his associates.
At his hospital bed ,he revealed to me the reasons of his sickness and directed me where to get the documents of the said deposit which he made on my name as the next of kin, being the only child. He advised me that in case he die, that I should not stay in this country Sierre Leone because his associates will equally kill me hence my mother had died five years ago of breast cancer.
He also instructed that if he dies, I should look for a foreign partner who will help me to transfer the money out of this place (Senegal), to his/her account and the person will help me to invest the money in that country.
Based on this, I had to contact you bearing in mind that you will be humane
enough to protect my life.
My father finally died on the 5th of june,2004 and since then, I was out of school and went into hiding because of my father's associates. All the relevant documents of the $6.800,000.(Six Million Eight hundred United States Dollars) that was deposited in a Bank here in Senegal by my late father.
I will give you of the total money, if you can help me transferring it into your Account, for onward investment in your country.
Please contact me immediately for us to make step forward on how we can transfer the money before they kill me.
I'm waiting for your urgent reply.
Best regards.
sincerely,
miss wloloso joy


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