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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)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • barati_p1@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "barati_p1@yahoo.fr" <barati_p1@gazeta.pl>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:26:22 +0000
Subject: Dearest Friend.


Dearest Friend.
Excurse me for bothering you with my plight,i believe you could be of
help,My full names are Mrs-BARATI PARINAZ,-A Canadian citizen though Born in
Iran by An iranian Mother.

It has not being easy struggling alone on this ,I am a widow to the
Assistant Director of Iran Mines and Metals, Oil, who died in Spain on 20th
April 2006,After brief illness.But since his dealth it has not be easy
honesly saying facing presure iof all kind from my brother-in-laws
protesting my inheriance right to wealth and properties he entrusted in my
care.But i cannot fight with them being alone,though it is like my husband
knew or anticipated what will happen on his absence and confided in me after
his dealth,even if his brother chose to maltreat me ,i should do every thing
possible to relocate away from them.

And look for reliable God fearing foreighn bussiness partner to enter joint
venture with some of the fund he deposited in disquised of family valuable
in a metallic truck box in diplomatic finance company .The sum in question
is Eleven Million United states dollars($11,000,000USD)in the metallic truck
box. This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family valuable.
My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you
and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of
money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country
with your percentage of which we shall discuss on soon.

In fact, since the death of my husband, his brothers has been seriously
chasing me around with constant treats, trying to suppress me so that they
might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them
because they knew that i don't have anyone who will oppose them for
maltreating me since I lost my parent 17yrs ago.

They have successfully collected all his properties , yet they never stopped
there, they told me to surrender all bank account of my late husband, which
I did, but I never disclose to them this deposit with the security company
in Abidjan-Cote d'Ivoire, because this is where my future and destiny lies
upon.

The family of my late husband never aware of the secret existence of this
deposit which he made with the security company and they can never be aware
of it. Out of fear of my late husbands family, I decide to look for a
trustworthy person who could assist me retrieve this box of money from the
security company for onward lodgement into his account for the purpose of
future investment. Consider my situation as a widow and come to my rescue.

I will appreciate you immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to
hearing from you soon for quick prcessing and conclusion of this business
transaction.Please contact me urgently upon your acceptance so that we can
discuss how to go about this transaction speedily and accomplished it.
Thanking you in anticipation of your very kind and humane gesture and
looking forward to hearing considerably from you.

please I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of
the presence of my husband's greedy and wicked relatives presently flock in
our home. I don't want them to know about this development to aviod them not
knowing that such fund are still in my possesion.
your empathetic is hightly solicited

with respect,
Mrs. Barati Parinaz.

i will like you to cintacts me wite this email barati_p1@yahoo.fr

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