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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 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.
  • chodili1@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Charles=20Odili?= <chodili1@yahoo.es>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:50:18 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: GOOD FRIEND


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: chodili1@yahoo.es

From: Mr. CHARLES ODILI

Accounts-Banking Division,

African Continental Bank Plc, Lagos, Nigeria.



Dear friend,



My name is Mr. Mr. CHARLES ODILI, General Manager, Corporate and Investment Banking Division (South) with African Continental Bank Plc, Lagos- Nigeria. I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company to handle a confidential transaction on behalf of myself. As a matter of fact, I got your information from the international affairs commission.



l am writing in respect of a foreign

customer with our Bank, who

Unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed on 31 January 2000, including his wife. Since the death of this our customer, I have kept a close Monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since then. Nobody has come forward to claim the money in his A/C as next of kin to the late customer. The total amount in the account is US$15.5 million and it is a domiciliary escrow bank account. Also the funds can only be released to a foreigner.



As it stands now, there is nobody in the position to produce the needed information other than my very self-considering my position in the

bank. Based on the fact that all the family perished in the same flight accident, leaving no one to lay claim of the deposit as the next of kin, so I am seeking for your co-operation to present you as

the next of kin, and arrange for the release of the funds to your honor for our mutual benefit.



I am willing to share this money with you in the ratio of 70-30%. You shall have 30% of the funds and I shall have the rest (70%).I hope this is a fair sharing?



I look forward to hearing from you urgently so that we can proceed accordingly.



Thanks and best

Regards.



Mr. CHARLES ODILI.



- Charles Odili

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