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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • patrickcolombo@alexandria.cc (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "patrick colombo" <pat223colo@msn.com>
Reply-To: patrickcolombo@alexandria.cc
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:58:11 +0000
Subject: From patrick,Between me and you..

No 0871 Eletrnal Aveune City
johannesburg South Africa

Hello,

I want to transfer ($125,000.000.00 USD) One Hundred & Twenty five million
United States Dollars from a Prime Bank here in South Africa to an oversea
account.First, I must solicit your strictest
confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of it's nature as being
utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and
reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude.

I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your
safe account for unward investment.You can either provide us with an
existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive
this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as
long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important
business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down
either now or in future.

I am the personal account officer to the great late INDUSTRIALIST who has an
account in one of the top banks here in South Africa. The account was opened
in 1998 and he died in 2003 without
a written or oral WILL and since 2003 nobody has operated on this account
again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about
this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and until his death he was the manager of the company.My investigation
through the National immigration department proved to me as well that he
was single as at the time of his entry into the Republic of South Africa.
The amount in this account is USD$125 Million ( One Hundred & Twenty five
Million United States Dollars ) only.


As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for
investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the
management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who
has correct information to this account which I will give to you
immediately, if you are interested to do this business with me.There is no
risk in this business. With my position and my personal contact with the
manager of the bank, the money can be transferred to anyaccount you can
provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical
arrival in your country for sharing.


We will start the first transfer with Twenty five million [$25,000.000].
Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we
shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining
balance of $100 Million to your account. I am only contacting you as a
foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here,
but can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct information
of the account which I will provide for you.

The informations will be as follows..

Bank Name..
Bank Address..
A/C Name...
A/C Number.....
Swift Code No...
Phone numbers home and office...


So you should provide me with your correct account details and your phone
numbers, where you will like the fund to be transferred or you can set up a
new account for the transfer even an empty account is ok. At the
conclussion of the transfer you will take 35%,5% will be for any expenses
both parties incurred in the process of this business and the remaining 60%
will be for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance
that you will not let me down once
the fund goes into your account I will then start the processing of the
transfer of the fund to your account without further delay.

Contact me urgently via email (patrickcolombo@alexandria.cc) for further
details.

Thanks. Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Patrick Colombo.

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