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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 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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • +2348066767172 (Nigeria, 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.
  • drjames_okumagba@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • drjamesokumagba2@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • drjamesokumagba2@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Dr.James=20Okumagba?=" <drjames_okumagba@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: drjamesokumagba2@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:02:05 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: I need your trust


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: drjames_okumagba@yahoo.co.uk

ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT

ECO INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC

PLOT 2, AJOSE ADEOGUN STREET

VICTORIA-ISLAND LAGOS-NIGERIA

TEL:+234-806-676-7172

FAX: + 234-1-7591913

EMAIL: drjamesokumagba2@yahoo.fr



Dear Friend,


Re: Transfer of $18,000.000. (Eigteen Million US Dollars)


We want to transfer to overseas {$18,000,000] Eighteen Million United

States dollars from Eco International Bank Nig Plc.I would like, if you

will be capable and fit to Provide either an existing Bank account or to

set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty

account can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest

to me till the end of this important business transaction.


I am Dr James Okumagba Director of Accounts Department of Eco

International Bank plc, during the course of our auditing I discovered a

floating fund in an account opened with our Bank in 2000 and since 2002

nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old

files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died

without a heir 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 was Engr. Anthony Hamill, a national of your

country, and an Industrialist. He died since 2002 and no other person

knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no

beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Engr. Anthony

Hamill until his death was a Manager with an oil firm in Nigeria.


I am contacting you as a foreigner because this Money can only be approved

to a foreigner with a foreign account because the money is in us dollars

and the former owner of the account Engr. Anthony Hamill is a foreigner.

I am revealing all these information to you with the belief that you will

never let me down in this business. You are the first and the only person

I am contacting for the business so please reply urgently for me to tell

you the next step to take.


You should forward the following information: Your telephone/fax numbers

and your Residential address, which is also needed. You will have to give

me the assurance that when we meet, this money will be intact pending our

physical arrival in your country for sharing and disbursement of the fund

which will be 35% for your assistance, 60% will be for us while 5% will be

set aside to take care of all the expenses that would be incurred by both

parties during the course of the transfer.


I look forward to your earliest response through my alternative email address below

(drjamesokumagba2@yahoo.fr ) or call me through my private telephone

number +234-806-676-7172, for security reasons.



Yours faithfully,

Dr. James Okumagba.

- Dr.James Okumagba

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