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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: "Mr Edwin Johnson" <johnson44_edwin@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: edwin44_johnson@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:47:22 +0200
Subject: A REQUEST FOR YOUR KIND ASISSTANCE.
West Africa.
Hello My Dear,
please write me , I am writting this letter with due respect and
heartful of tears since we have not known or meet ourselves previously I am
asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile that
speaks good of you. I want to find out if it's possible for you to deal
with individual as to investment. My dear i will be so glad if you can
allow me and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my
situation now.I will make my proposal well known to you. I would like to
use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am Edwin Johnson
26yer old man from Liberia in west Africa,i am the son of late
Dr David Johnson My father Dr David was the personal advicer to the
former head of state president Charles Taylor who is now in exile, before
the rebels attacked our house one early morning killing my mother and my
father It was only me that is alive now, and i managed to make my way
to near by country where i am staying as a refugee now.
The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek your assistance
in the area of my future investment and also to help me to transfer the
money that he deposited in the bank over to your possession. the amount
is (US9.3 Million dollars) he made this deposit some years back,which
i am the nest of kin. Please i am asking you to stand on my behalf as
my partner to claim the money out from the bank and transfer it into
your position .
I have made up my mind to offer you 20%of the total money,
while the remaining will go into a productive business for me, As I
have mention earlier I will make the procedure to this transaction to be
well know to you and i will give you the contact of the financier
company so that you will contact them for more verification.please attach
your direct and full contact address as you reply to me,as soon as you
received this letter,i will be waiting to hear from you.
Regards.
Edwin Johnson.
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