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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 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.
  • ushima2006@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Eunice Shima" <cjim115@msn.com>
Reply-To: ushima2006@myway.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:19:44 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT.

FROM: MRS EUNICE SHIMA.

I Greet You In The Name of God.

I am Mrs.Eunice Shima, wife of Tony Shima,a farmer from zimbabwe.
We are a family that needs help from you, we are from Zimbabwe the south of
Africa and we are farmers but we are having a big problems with the
President Mr. Robert Mugabe. Because my husband criticised him publicly for
siezing the farmlands of white farmers and their personal belongings and
also sending his mobs and aids to destroy their properties.

My husband(Tony) was killed by Robert Mugabe's aids and they confisticated
all our properties, including our farmlands. So me and my two children had
to run to Chad a small country where we did not know anybody for safety and
we are now seeking asylum, but the help we need from you is to help us claim
the sum of Eight million dollars (8,000,000.00 dollars) that my husband
deposited in a finance house before his untimely death.

We cannot go and make the claim and if we try the President have people all
over that will know and they will seize the funds, so I , Mrs. Shima is
writing to you in person and as a big brother nation to help us and claim
this fund you can stand as a partner to my late husband and send to the
finance house an application for claim or retransfer of the funds to your
account and you will have 15% of the total amount and you will help us
invest our share in your country but it's very important you help us to come
over to your great country.
If you want to help us Furnish me with the following info:

(1) Your complete names, address, date of birth.
(2) Your passport number or drivers license.
(3) Phone number and fax so that I can fax the original copies to you

Note that i have all the documents for the smooth claim of the said
fund,which i will transfer to you.
Please forward all response to my confidential e-mail: ushima2006@myway.com

Thanks.
Yours sincerely,

Mrs .Eunice Shima.

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