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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: "Mariam Camara" <mcama666@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mcama444@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:00:43 +0000
Subject: Urgent Response
Dear good friend
Greetings to you.Please pardon me for contacting you without any formal appointment or communication do consider my status
as asylum seeker in Porto-Novo Benin.I will like to seek your assistance in receiving and investing the sum of US$4.8M held in
a holding finance company in europe.The money was deposited by my late father who was killed last year by the rebels during
he uprising in Abidjan-Cote d' Ivoire. He was until his sudden death a diamond /cocoa dealer in Angola and Cote d' Ivoire which
is where he made his wealth. Me and my mother arrived Dakar few days ago and confirmed the validity of this deposit then
decided to contact you for assistance in view of our present situations. We got your contact through the Internet data base
while searching for my father'sfriends in your country.
More details will be given to you as soon as i hear from you.Please include some of your personal details for us to establish
a good business and family relationship.
I look forward to hearing from you
Honestly yours
Mariam Camara
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