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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • +447040129245 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • rodchesson777@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rodney Chesson." <rochess777@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rodchesson777@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:04:06 +0000
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS CO-OPERATION.

From: Mr. Rodney Chesson.
Tel: +44-704-012-9245.
email: rodchesson777@yahoo.com.hk

Dear Sir,

RE: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS CO-OPERATION.

I am Mr. Rodney Chesson, I work with a finance company here in the United

Kingdom.

One of our clients, DR. ROBERT DIMITRIS, who was before his death, an

adviser

to the Organisation of Petroleum Export Country (OPEC), had several deposits
lodged in our care as his fund managers.
On his death five years ago, his heir (his wife) put up claims and my company
paid off on the claims she submitted papers.

However, his wife did not present papers for two prime deposits with total
values: fourteen million US dollars (US$14million) and of Nine million, eight
hundred thousand British Pounds GBP9.8Million) paid in by DR. ROBERT DIMITRIS

in different names and the deposits are still intact.

I discovered that DR. ROBERT DIMITRIS did not declare any next of kin or
relations in all official documents for those two prime deposits. They are

term deposits and term has expired and no one will come again for the funds.
Based on my position in this finance company , I have kept the facts of this
case closely to myself alone. The reason I am contacting you is because I am
quite certain you can stand in and claim these funds with my assistance. I

have planned the operation well in line with our company's procedures and

practice.

If you show interest by replying to this proposal, I will send to you further
information on the planning and execution. Precisely however, what this

requires is that you put in an application with a letter of probate, showing

copy of the deposit document which I will forward to you. This will enable

our finance company at any of our branch offices to recognise you as the next

of kin to late DR. ROBERT DIMITRIS and therefore eligible to claim the funds.

I will share fifty - fifty with you.

It is quite necessary that this is kept as confidential as possible for its
successfull completion within days. I will be expecting your reply.

Sincerely,
Rodney Chesson.

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