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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • ellis_nuhanvaye@yahoo.co.in
  • ellis_nuhanvaye@yahoo.co.in

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Ellis Nuhan Vaye" <ellis_nuhanvaye@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:50:50 +0700
Subject: Please Acknowledge

Mrs. Ellis Nuhan Vaye.
Email: ellis_nuhanvaye@yahoo.co.in
Tel: 66-5-1539304

Dear Sir / Ceo,

Greetings from {MRS. ELLIS} a crying bittered heart seeking for your help. Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you, as am most sure that you will truely take your time to read my mail with best of hope that you will have a very kind heart so full of consciences and love considering human nature to be able to understand my situation and help me find a solution over this incidence, because you seem to be our last hope for now.

I believe you are a highly respected personality considering a careful research which I have been able to make inrespect to your kind of person, before I decided to entrust this transactions and database in your country into your hands which I believe you will not betray my trust and confidence already entrusted on you.

Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and fragile political situation in Liberia but it has formed consistent headlines in the CNN, BBC news bulletins. My name is MRS. ELLIS NUHAN VAYE and my Son MUSA NUHAN VAYE, we are from Liberia, a Country in West Africa. My late Husband MR. ISSAC NUHAN VAYE, was then Deputy Minister of Public Works during President Charles Taylor regim in Liberia. My Husband was falsely accused of plotting coup to remove the then President of Liberia (Charles Taylor) from office. Without trial, President Charles Taylor killed him. You can verify this from your country. You can also check in some of the international newspapers posted in the web site below:

(i) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-15-liberia_x.htm

Two days before his arrest, he managed to sneak out a written message informing me about one trunk box of valuable, containing money which he had concealed under the roof. He instructed me to take our only son and move out of Liberia immediately to Bangkok Thailand, I become a widow overnight, helpless situation without a partner. At that moment of calamity, every persons was running for his and her life. My son and I manage to escape through the help of an airline to Bangkok with the box and some vital documents property title.

The cash involved in the box is Nine Million, Three Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$9.3M). Due to fear and limited rights as refugee, I deposited the box with a private security organization in order not to raise an eyebrow over the box here in Bangkok. My son's name is MUSA NUHAN VAYE and we are temporary residing in Uttaradit in the northern part of Thailand as assylum seekers. Be inform that the real content of the box was not disclosed to security company for security reasons.

As a refugee we can not open bank account here in Thailand where the money will be paid into because we have no valuable document. Therefore we want you to come to Bangkok Thailand to assist us retrieve the box from the security company. You will be required to open non residence bank account with any bank of your choice here in Bangkok Thailand and get the money deposited in that account. Thereafter you will order the bank to transfer the money into your bank account in your country. You shall also source for good investment for us where we can invest the money wisely. We have it in mind to establish a rewarding investment and good business relationship with you.

Concerning the money, we are prepare to give you a reasonable percentage of 30% of the total sum and 10% would be mapped out for any expences incured in the course of this transaction and 60% will be for my family. For the interest of this business do not hesitate to contact my son MUSA NUHAN VAYE on this Tel: 66-5-1539304, or email: {ellis_nuhanvaye@yahoo.co.in} as soon as you receive this letter. Feel free to contact my son for more information. No other person know about this money apart from my son and I, endeavor to keep this business confidential.

We await your quick reponse. May God bless you.

Best Regard.
Mrs. Ellis Nuhan Vaye.

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