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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • don_yakassilib7@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Donald Yakassi" <don_yakassilib1@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:47:54 +0100
Subject: REPLY

My Dearest beloveth,

It is with heart full of pity that i seek for your foreign assiatnce to one
Madam Elizabeth Muluzu.

I have a promising proposal, which I know might interest you. My name is
Dr.Donald Yakassi, a medical doctor attached to United Nations Refugee Camp.
This is a compelling story, and I beg you to be patient and read through to
the end.
I have a widow here in the refugee camp who is on a political asylum in Free
Town Sierra Leone Refugee Camp, she has been so ill for some couple of
months now. This woman confided in me based on the free medical attention I
have been giving to her and her children.She had revealed to me of her life
history and about her late husband who was a top military officer in
(Sierra-Leone) before his death during the civil war and the fortune she
inherited from her late husband. Her late husband's family are searching for
madam Elizabeth Muluzu so that they will take her life to enable them
forcefully claim all that her late husband left behind for her and her
little children.I pray it shall never be well with them.

For this reason, she has asked me to source for a credible and trustworthy
foreign partner abroad who will come and claim out the deposited box because
he (madam's late husband) deposited the box as a belonging to his foreign
business partner whose name was not mentioned for security reasons and for
you to manage her funds, the total sum of Ten million, five hundred thousand
US Dollars (US$10,500,000.00 million), which her late husband deposited in a
financial house based in London.
I wish to choose you for this venture and I believe you will be in the
osition to assist in managing this large sum in a profitable venture and
also to help create a safe heaven for her and her children by making a
residence arrangement for them in your country.

After she had disclosed this information to me, I saw the reason to request
from her to allow me see the documents relating to this deposit of which she
did,now I have the documents covering the deposit which I will not hesitate
to send to you the copies as a prove for your confirmation as soon as I
receive your response via email.
You are obliged to assist this lady knowing too well that she has a limited
knowledge in the business world and as such she can not manage this funds
herself. And in Africa in order to avoid any trace of her late husband's
family relations who are after her life, I will need from you an
honest,kind,and mutual understanding ato help madam Elizabeth Muluzu,after
which you will arrange and travel immediately to meet with the security
company Agent for clearing out of the box.
This amount is contained in a sealed trunk box and it is registered and
declared as containing family treasures, so even as I am writing you now the
security company and it's Agent is not aware that there is cash money in the
trunk. Let me assure you that this transaction is 100% hitch - free and
risk -free.
From my discussion with her, she has agreed to give you a reasonable amount
of percentage for your involvement in this and this has to be discussed upon
the receipt of your quick response.
Looking forward to your urgent reply,And please know that this transaction
is very confidential ,so please do not disclose it to anybody.You can reply
all your full informations to my private box:don_yakassilib7@yahoo.com

Thanks and God bless for your understanding,

Sincere regards,
Dr.Donald Yakassi

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