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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:
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• 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.
  • jenebamf1960@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Hajia Mohammed Abd Fathai" <jenebamf1960@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:48:56 +0100
Subject: Hajia Mohammed Abd Fathai

Bishmilahi Rahman Raheem
I am Hajia Jeneba Mohammed Fathai) the wife of Dr .Hassan Mohammed(Abu Fathai), a prominent member of the First Activist to organise trade union in the oil & gas industry but who was murdered resently on his way home,close to the Al Dorah refinery in Baghdad Iraq.

I Will like to seek your assistance as a matter of urgency to stand as the beneficiary to the sum of ($25,000,000.00) and a boxes contaning pure quality gold 22, 7 carat+ With the following conditions,Quantity: 363kgs.Purity: 999.9/1000 which my late Husband deposited in a Bank in Europe on behalf of the family.
Your quick response towards rendering your total commitment in helping me claiming this fund in the Bank in Europe,will enable me forward to you, the details on how you will go about the collection of the fund and the percentage you will expect from me.
For Security purpose,I would like you to open a new email address purposefully for this transaction.I also wan't all our communicatiuon to be by e-mail so that my life will not be expose to this oppositionist who murdered my Husband.

Lastly,there will be a very solid agree between you and I, that you will not betray me after you have caimed the funds from the company.As soon as this first face of the transaction is concluded I will want you to arrange for my traveling document to meet with you in your country and also to arrange for where myself and my only son can live for the rest of our lives to avoid being killed by these opposition running after the family.

I will welcome your suggestion on the areas we can co-invest the fund on after arriving in your country.Please,the confidentiality of this transaction I'am entrusting on you is very important to me,May Allah the mercifull be with you and your entire family in all your undertakings.

Thanks while waiting for your quick response.send your reply to jenebamf1960@yahoo.com

Hajia Jeneba Mohammed Fathai
Masbah House
No 41/5/929
Alwiyah
Bagdad
Kuwait Contact Address
Hajia Fathi Plastic Pipes and Fittings Center
P.O. Box 1653 SAFAT,13017 SAFAT, KUWAIT
Sabhan Industrial Area
Cable:YOUKADASAN
Tel :47438000 - 47438011 - 4730225
Fax : 4718258 - 47641150
Email:jenebamf1960@yahoo.com
Allah Hafiz.

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