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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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• 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.
  • jasonface@email2me.net

Fraud email example:

From: "Idimu Sa" <idimusa00@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:06:34 +0000
Subject: BE REST ASURED

MR. JASON BONIFACE
HEAD CENTRAL ACCOUNTING UNIT
YUKOS OIL COPORATION, RUSSIA.
Email: jasonface@email2me.net
Good day,
My name is Mr. Jason Boniface, head central accounting unit of Yukos Oil
Corporation in Russia.
I have the documents of funds for Anaethesia Group Pty in our central
accounting system a company secretly owned by the chairman of Yukos oil
corporation, Mr. Mikhail Boris Khodorkovsky who was recently jailed for
financing political parties in Russia (the union of right forces, led by
Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by
Gregor Yavlinsky).
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f13f7d22-b0cb-11d9-9bfc-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=4bb96
12a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html
http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html
http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/dbf849d8-b195-11d9-8c61-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=4bb96
12a-d254-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html
The total amount of funds in the central accounting system due for payment
to Anaethesia group Pty is One Hundred and Fifty Five Million United States
Dollars (US$155,000,000.00).
Due to the fact that his finances and assets have been frozen by the
Russian government, his wife (Mrs. Inna khodorkovsky) has approached me to
get an individual or preferably a company to help reprofile the funds in
their Name and consequently get them transferred out of Russia for
investment on their behalf.
I am contacting you in this regards because she has agreed to compensate us
with 10% of the total sum.
As soon as I get you response, I will send you the necessary details and my
Identification.
Regards,

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