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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • wythc2008@california.usa.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS. VARISA VALLEY" <varisa@inmail24.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: varisa2008@inmail24.com
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:54:01 +0100
Subject: CONFERENCE INVITATION

Helo Dear,
We are cordially inviting you to our twin combined conference which
will be held. In Anaheim California From the 19th - 23rd of April 2008
and Dakar senegal from the 26th - 30th of April 2008. If you are
interested to participate and want to represent your country,you may
contact
the secretariat of the organizing committee for details and
information.
You should also inform them that you were invited to participate by a
friend
of yours (DR. VARISA.W. VALY), who is a member of the American Youths 4
Peace and a staff of (WORLD YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS).
The benevolent donors of the Organizing Committee will provide round
trip air tickets and accommodation for the period of participants Stay in
the U.S, to all registered participants.
You will only be responsible for your own hotel booking in Dakar where
the
second phase of the conference will be held. If you are a holder of an
international passport that may require visa to enter the United States
you may inform the conference secretariat
at the time of registration, as the organizing committee is responsible
for more details and all visa arrangements and travel assistances including
registration.kindly contact the secretariat at the below contacts:
Also Endeavor to update me with every step you take to enable me follow up
the processing of your documents,as I was the one who invited you so
as to receive the entitled travelling documents ontime. Contact them soo
next: i will also like us to know each other better cos it would also be pleasure
to meet here in this up comming event, aslo be by exchanging our photos .
below are the contacts:
CONTACT PERSON:
MADAM MYRA B COHEN,
Email:wythc2008@california.usa.com
Sincerely,
Ms.Varisa Valley

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