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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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  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: James Will <will.james1813@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:13:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION IS NEEDED


Dear Friend,=20



Good day,my brother ,hope you
doing pretty well today,sorry if am bothering your peace but hope this
message will bring good tiding in our lives.



I am Jameson Williams, a private financial investigator working with Intern=
ational Commercial Bank ,Ghana,(ICB) .



Sir,in order to cut the message brief,at every end of year the bank externa=
l auditors
render their end of year financial audit,any financial abuse or
misconduct/misappropriation of fund=A0 is being investigated and culprits
brought to book.



In this years' financial audit,its has been
discovered an abandoned fix deposited fund worth $8.200.000 being
deposited by a foreign gold merchants whose identity is withhold for
the time being.At the discovery of this fund I was called upon to
investigate to source for=A0 the depositor of which after my
investigation I came out with the fact that the depositor died in an=A0 air=
disaster that claim 100 + lives in Benin Rep a neighboring country when tr=
aveling on holidays with his family in the year 2003.



All efforts made to get relatives got to no avail.



Now
my proposal is that=A0 this investigation is not released to the bank=A0
authorities and am soliciting as I already informed the deceased accounts m=
anager
in the bank as to how we shall provide someone whose name is close to
the deceased to put claims on this fund of which all datas and
information will be given to=A0 as the next of kin to the deceased for
the claim.



We have agreed to map out the percentages as follows,5% for minor expenses =
that may occur during the process of
transferring the
fund,25% for you who will provide the foreign accounts,30% for the account=
s manager=A0 and 40% for me,Jameson.



The
need=A0 for this transaction is that,as soon as the bank get the info
that the depositor died without any beneficiary the fund will be
confiscated to the state coufess which will not benefit all the=A0
parties.



Note that you have no fear to entertain as all the parties involve are prof=
essionals in their field in the bank.



If
you really wish to provide your accounts in this fruitful
transaction,do not hesitated to contact me on my private mail and phone
number that I will provide in order to discuss on other terms and
conditions.



Beware! No betrayal,no blackmail and no double
crossing.Just abide by all directives and instructions and success will
be achieved.



Thanks



Regards



Jameson.+233 272083838=0A=0A=0A

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