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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:

• 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.
  • +447031913734 (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.
  • mjwhite@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: Micheal John White <michealjohnwhite20@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:35:55 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FROM:MICHEAL J.WHITE (UNITED KINGDOM).


This message is intended only for the use of the individual or organization to which it is addressed. It contains information that is privilege and confidential but exempts from disclosure under the applicable law(s). If you are not the intended recipient, employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination or copying of this message is strictly prohibited.
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FROM:MICHEAL J.WHITE.
GROUP AUDIT FOR INTERNATIONAL,
BUSINESS DIVISION,ALPHA BANK LONDON,
66 CANNON STREET, LONDON EC4N.
Tel:+44-7031913734.

Attn:Jacqueline Winter

At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and
trouble free to both parties.

My name is MICHEAL J.WHITE., I work as the operational manager in account and auditing section in charge of credit and foreign bills in Alpha Bank London. On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant domiciliary account with a Balance of US$168,559,000. 00 (One hundred and sixty eight million five hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S dollars only}. The account holder[The deceased] was believed to be incharge of Former Iraq president,General Saddam Hussein secret CRUDE OIL transactions before his death.

On further discreet investigation, I also discovered that the account holder has died long ago with his family on a fatal Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to the account and no other person knows about this account.I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner and he is willing to approve the transfer of this fund to any reliable and trustworthy foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator if the a/c is a foreigner. I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral WILL attached to the account, no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the claim of this money. It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you if you are interested, therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction. This money will remain useless in this dormant account if I did not transfer the fund out to a foreign account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to claim this money. I only need your co-operation as a foreigner to provide your safe bank account information for the transfer. All arrangement that will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which you are to nominate is already in place.You should provide me with your correct account information for the transfer and your direct cell phone lines for easy communication. I wish for utmost confidentiality in handling this
transaction.

At the conclussion of this transaction, your share will be 25% of the total transfer sum, 70% for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any expenses both parties might incure during the process of the transfer. The fund will be transferred to your account in two parts. I will first transfer USD 38 Million to your account as a test transfer. I will fly over to meet you after the successful transfer for sharing according to the agreed percentages. I will have the remaining balance of USD130,559 Million
transferred to your account only after the successful sharing of the first transfer without any disappointment from your side.

Let me hear from you urgently by Email,You can also call me for more
details.

Have a nice day as I count on you to make this transfer a success, should in case any blockage or failure delivery,please do contact me via the following email : info.mjwhite@yahoo.co.uk

Best regards,
Mr. Micheal J.White.
Phone +44-7031913734.




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