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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "the consignment" (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)
  • "trunk box" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a "dying widow" 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.
  • emuna_barash004@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "emuna_barash004@yahoo.com" <emunny40@gala.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:40:43 +0200
Subject: From Mrs Emuna


Mrs.Emuna Barash writing from /
Herzog Hospital,Jerusalem,
Israel.

Greeting to you in the name of our Lord,

I am the above
named person from Israel, I am married to Mr.Yael Barash who is an Oil
Consultant / Contractor before he died in the year 2006, due to the
crisis between our country and Lebanon , We were married for eleven
years without a child.
Before his death we were both born again
Christian and we worship in Glourios chapel church of God. Since his
death I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial
home which the Bible is against.
When my late husband was alive he
deposited the sum of ( $9 million U.S. dollars)in a trunk box with a
security company in Ivory Coast, Presently the fund is still with the
security company.
Recently, my Doctor told me that i have serious
sickness which is cancer. But I pray to God to heal me so that I will be
alive and see his work done as my late husband instructed me.
Having
known my condition I decided to contact you for your urgent assistance,
so that you will help me contact the security company were the
consignment box is been deposited by my late husband. on how the
consignment will be realised and transferred to your country were we can
invest the fund in a good manna and also for me to get my self well
treated and make sure that i invest the fund on what my late husband has
instructed me before his death.
For your information the security
company is not aware of the real content of the consignment box, because
the consignment was deposited as family belongings in a truck box for
safe keeping by my late husband .
I took this decision because I don't
have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are
not good people and I don't want my husband efforts to be used by bad
associations, I don't want a situation where this money will be used in
an ungodly way, This is why I am taking this decision,I am not afraid of
death hence I know where I am going, I know that I am going to be in the
bosom of the Lord.
My Dear, please I don't need any telephone
communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of
my husband relatives around me always, I don't want them to know about
this development, With God all things are possible.
As soon as I
receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Security Company
for you to communicate with them and claim the consignment box by all
means which no one in the security company management is aware of the
contents of consignment box as money,because my late husband deposited
it as confidential family valuables.for security reasons.
I want you to
always pray for me because the lord is my shepherd. My happiness is that
I lived a life of a worthy Christian and whoever that Wants to serve the
Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth.
Please assure me that you will
act accordingly as I Stated herein.
Hoping to receive your reply for
more details and may God be with you.
N/b Get back to me on
(emuna_barash004@yahoo.com ) To enable me give you more details on how
we can proceed ok.
Regards
Your sister in Christ,
Mrs Emuna Barash

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