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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 by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• 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 next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • sofia_garang11@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?MISS=20SOFIA?= <sofia_garang11@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:44:26 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CRY FOR HELP


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: sofia_garang11@yahoo.co.uk

ATTN PLS:

Dear beloved one,

Am writting this mail with sorrow,tears,Agony and lonliness which am facing a very hard and dufficult time here as an orphan,Am writting this very mail with faith and confident that you will hear my cry for help and your reply,

I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and fragile political situation in my country Sudan but it has formed consistent headlines in the CNN, BBC news bulletins,

I am Miss Sofia Garang from the Republic of Sudan i am the Daughter of late John Garang,My late father was vice president of Sudan the position he held for three weeks before he died in helicopter crash,he was killed by Sudan President Omar al Bashir in helicopter crash,in which he denied.

The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek you assistance in the area of my future investment and also for a help hand over some amount of money my Late father deposited for me as beneficiary.This money is Nine Millon Five Hundred Thousand Dollars my late father deposited it for me some years ago,

I am in Dakar Senegal now.i came here after the death of my parents, i came to this country to search for a foreign partner to help me retrieve the money from the security company and also help me relocate to your country and invest in real estate and industrial productions.I have contacted them some many times what they told me was due to my refugee status they will not release it to me,that i should present somebody or a company to stand on my behalf. i am now asking you to pls help me stand on my behalf to make this claim,to stand as my partner oversea and in time of the investment as well, please if you are willing to assist me,indicate your interest in replying soonest.

you can read about the death of my late father in this newspaper report

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4734517.stm

waiting

Remine blessed.

Yours Sofia Garang



- MISS SOFIA

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