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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Wilson Holmes" <willy_102@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:52:09 +0100
Subject: (Important)Please Read.
J P Morgan
London.
Dear Friend,
I am one of the transfer officers of J P Morgan London and my name is
Mr. Wilson Holmes. Please permit me to make this plea to you and if
interested, do not hesitate to get back to me via my email immediately
for further action.
Last 3 years, a group of men from Africa were able to move the sum of
$52M to our branch in London and since then, none of them have shown up
to lay claims on the said amount.
Several calls have been made to the owners and none was successful on
the numbers given and now I have all the paper work to transfer the
funds via our payment office here in London to your account without any
trace as all documents will be destroyed by me immediately the transfer
is taken place after 5 days of receiving your details.
Please this is very confidential and must not be discussed with anyone
else as I have prepared all my documents to resign once transfer is
made to your account. Also you will assure me that you will not
disappear with the funds hence I make this plea in good faith.
The funds will be shared on 60-40 bases to avoid greed on both sides.
If you are interested, get back to me and we shall get this done.
Yours Faithfully,
Wilson Holmes.
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