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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.
  • jimsabourin10@yahoo.ca

Fraud email example:

From: jim sabourin <jimsabourin11@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:34:54 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: prompt response


From: Mr.Jim Sabourin
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
6880 Financial Drive, West Tower,
8th FloorMississauga, Ontario L5N 7Y5
Email: jimsabourin10@yahoo.ca

My dearest Madras House,

May the good God continue to bless you and your family
for your very kind and prompt response to my email,
indicating your willingness to assist me transfer this
funds out of canada for investment purposes in your
country or any country that you will recommend as
originally intended by Mr. Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah .
I decided to contact you to assist me in
this very important project hoping that you will not
fail me.

I am very impressed by your person and I feel I have
found the right person, but time will tell. As you
know, the success of this transaction will depend on
our total mutual trust as we have not met each other
before. Hence I want you to reassure me that you will
not take undue advantage of my as a staff situation but will
only take the agreed 15% and reimbursement of any
expenses that you incur in the course of transferring
this money into your account. I want you to treat me
as your own brother and handle this transaction with
total commitment of purpose as you own.
Once more as regards to the instruction from the bank
I am been asked to get from you the following
for easy contact to you and also to inform you on time
when there is urgent need to the project. Please as
one of your contribution to this project and for my
personel reference records, try and get back to me
with details of your

1. your full names
2. your phone and fax numbers

Please this is very important to me and the entire
transaction depends on it so that we will open a file
in your name for the bank to update you on what ever that
we have discussed concerning this project.
I have to let you know that i have gone a very long
way in getting to this very stage of the transaction.


I wait for your comprehensive details of all
information requested. Thanks and my regards to you
and I hope to meet with you when I come
over to your country.

Thanks.
Mr.Jim Sabourin
(Unum Provident Corp of Royal Bank)


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