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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • janesmithwhite2006@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Jane Smith White" <janesw2005@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:08:17 +0200
Subject: PLEA FOR A HELP

MRS JANE SMITH WHITE

# 4 RANDBURG AVENUE
SOUTH AFRICA.
Tel+27783061180

Fax:27730577751

 

ATTN:Sir,
          
With honest,respect, trust,scincererity and good faith, I write you this letter to you seeking for a help which I believe, would be of great assistance to me and my Family. I found your contact while I was deligently doing a private search for an honest,truthful,a reliable and capable foreigner that will assist me and my family.

 

I am Mrs JANE SMITH the wife of Mr.SMITH WHITE (late) of Zimbabwe.During the current war against farmers in Zimbabwe and from the supporters of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms in our country, all the white farmers were ordered to surrender their farms to his party members and his followers. My husband who was one of the best farmers in our country,a strong member of the opposition party (MOVEMENET FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE-M.D.C),the treasury of the farmers’s co-operation did not support his Government Policies and so the party members known as war verterians invaded my husband’s farm,attacked him and our first and burnt everything in the farm,and made away with a lot of items in our farm after some seven months my husband died our son who would have graduated as a medical Doctor in 2003 later died too .(May their Souls Rest in Perfect Peace).AMEN.

 

After their burials, my second son Freeman,my only daughter and I decided to move out of Zimbabwe because our lives were in danger hence we shall be the next target with the documents of money TWENTY-ONE MILLION US DOLLARS(US$21M) that my husband deposited in a Security Company  in South Africa that was meant for investing in South Africa.Now we are residing in the Republic of South Africa as Political refugees.

So I decided to contact you as a person to assist me and my Children moving this money out of South Africa because of the South African Monetery and Banking Policies prohibited us from operating an account in the bank with such a hugh amount,and moreover,we are asylum seekers here in South Africa. 

 

So if you consider this request as wortwhile to assist us, we have agreed to give you 15% of the total sum for helping us to move this money out of South Africa to your country and 5% has been mapped out for reinbursment of expenses both of us may incur during this transfer and 80% will be for me and my family to invest in your country. 

 

I intended going back to Zimbabwe but with the result of the 31st March Parliamentary Elections held in Zimbabwe and Mr Robert Mugabes' interview he granted to the South African Broadcasting Co-perations(SABC) few days after the elections showed that he is not ready to leave the office or change his Policies.So I decided not to return to Zimbabwe .

 

All I want is for you to furnish me with all your  details  by contacting  me with my E Mail address or alternatively janesmithwhite2006@yahoo.co.in.

 

I shall appreciate your response as this demands an urgent response from you by the Family.Thanks for your understanding and anticipated coperations.Looking forward to hearing from you .

Best Regards,

JANE SMITH WHITE(MRS)
(For The Family)

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