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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • violet_usa_conference@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Violet Tesyi" <violet_usa_conferenc@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: violet_usa_conference@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 04:43:55 +0000
Subject: RE: INVITATION TO USA

Dear Friend,

My name is Violet Tesyi, female, working with (WORLD YOUTH
ORGANIZATION
FOR HUMAN WELFARE) California, U.S.A. We are organizing a global
youths
combined conferences taking place from August 14th-16th 2006 at
California in the United States and in ,Dakar Senegal from August
21th-23th 2006 .In our request to invite people from various
countries around the world, I went in search of e-mails on the web
site as a means of contacting youths and organizations .

*As a result, I picked your e-mail from an N.G.O`s website. If you
are interested to participate and want to represent your country,
you may contact the secretariat of the organizing committee for
details and information. You should also inform them that you were
invited to participate by a friend of yours (Violet Tesyi), who is a
member of the American Youths 4 Peace and a staff of(WORLD YOUTH
ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN WELFARE).

I believe that we may have the opportunity to meet if you may be
willing to participate in this event. You can also inform youths &
NGOs in your country about these conferences.

The benevolent donors of the Organizing Committee will provide round
trip air tickets and accommodation for the period of participants?
stay in the U.S., to all registered participants. If you are a
holder of passport that may require visa to enter the United States
you may inform the conference secretariat at the time of
registration, as the organizing committee is responsible for all
visa arrangements and travel assistances. Below is the contact
Please reply me Via: violet_usa_conference@yahoo.ca
Sincerely,
Violet Tesyi

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