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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27780707547 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • aliaminafaddy@tsamail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR ALI FADDY" <solomonseydoufaddy@gmail.com>
Reply-To: aliaminafaddy@tsamail.co.za
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:04:53 +0200
Subject: REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT HELP.


Good day and God bless you.
Request for family investment solution:
Mr. Ali and Amina Faddy.
Telephone +27-780-707547.
Email: *aliaminafaddy@tsamail.co.za* <aliaminafaddy@tsamail.co.za>


I m Mr. Ali Faddy with my only Sister Amina. We are citizens of Sudan.
Presently living in republic of South Africa under the status of refugee
asylum seeker. We know about you from international business directory
during our search for international partner who will assist us with a
solution for family investment we are making this contact to you through
this medium because of the urgent needed in this process concerning our
present situation in South Africa as we are orphans from a reach family in
Sudan but today due to problem cause to us by war we are living in pains and
sorrow. Experiencing a life in another country without parents this is the
biggest painful thing we ever seen since we lose our parents in our country
war our Life is not the same. Our parents were brutally murder by unknown
enemies who invaded our home during the war in the name of war it is a
painful story which we don't want to go through any more. But the reason we
are making this contact to you today is because of the rising problem which
we are facing presently in South Africa Concerning our plain for investment.


We have family depository fund which is $14.800.000. Fourteen million eight
hundred thousand USA Dollars which is our inheritance as faddy families. Our
father deposited this fund in South Africa for the future of his family as a
family future savings during his active time in Sudanese Government before
he was killed by the enemies, after there funeral I and my Sister Amina we
decide to move out of Sudan due to pressures was highly on us to republic of
South Africa to settle dawn as a family and go into investment with the
family inheritance fund but the biggest disappointments we met since we
arrived in South Africa concerning our plain for investment dose not give us
hope to settle dawn and further with our plain for investment in South
Africa due to arising problem concerning our permit for investment, because
we are not holding residential permit and business permit. According to
South Africa immigration authorities told us that we are not permitted to go
into any kind of investment/business in South Africa under the status of
asylum refugee permit so we are not permit to invest in South Africa only if
we are holding the authorized permit we feel big disappointed with our
plains and concerning our present situation now we don't want to go back to
our country Sudan with this fund due to we are afraid of losing it to the
hands of present Sudanese Government our parents suffered with there whole
life for this fund so we can have a better life and good future. On this
purpose we were advised by our family attorney who is a citizen of South
Africa to seek a co-operation from a foreign Company or individual who will
be in partner with us and help us by using his foreign bank account to
transfer this fund out of South Africa successfully so I and my Sister can
move out of South Africa to overseas for a better life and good investment
because with this fund we can have a good investment in overseas and we
strongly believed him. That is why we choose to seek for your co-operation
in this process to be our partner and hope you will kindly grant our
request. And In regard to this proposal concerning time and efforts you
shall devout to achieve a successful end of this transaction we have decide
through the advice of our attorney to give you 30% of this fund to be your
compensation for the assistance you shall give in this request. Kindly
accept our apology for any inconveniences you shall found in our request and
we thank you for the attention you give to our letter. We will be happy to
hear your response. Email us on EMAIL:
*aliaminafaddy@tsamail.co.za*<aliaminafaddy@tsamail.co.za>


Thank you.
Mr. Ali and Amina Faddy.

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