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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27833744193 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • ellyfifizimb@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: ellyfife-acc@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:30:59 +0200
Subject: Hi

Elly Fife
A/H Tel:+27-83-374-4193


Attn: The President/Ceo

My name is Elly Fife, an accountant and principal officer with the South African Mining Corporation. I got your contact when searching for a trustworthy and reputable person to assist me in handling a very confidential business transaction, which involves the transfer of fund running into millions of United States Dollars to a foreign account. This fund is a variation and accumulation of equity investment made in the South African mining corporation in the period of 1973-1977.

This redeemable interest, has now matured and has long been cleared for disbursement but with no apparent knowledge of who the investors are as most of the investors then, were corrupt government officials and their cronies under the obnoxious apartheid regime who used pseudo names and aliases in the transaction, and could not come up for claims under the present political setting in South Africa.

After due consultation with my colleagues in the accounts department, over the said fund, which is now considered as floating fund, we decided to confiscate the fund and placed it in a private trust company for safekeeping, awaiting further transfer to a foreign account for further business ventures. What we need now is a foreign national who can assist us in the transfer of this fund, and also help us to invest this fund in a risk-free venture.

If you are interested in assisting us in this transfer, we have agreed to compensate you based on a certain percentage of the toal sum, through mutual negotiations.

Please contact me after hour only on my private telephone + 27-83-374-4193,alternative email :ellyfifizimb@yahoo.com, for more detailed information on the above.

Thank you for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours faithfully,


Elly Fife

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