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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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• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "mark francis" <mark_francis02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mark_francis100@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:09:46 +0000
Subject: Your urgent assistance needed:

Dear Sir,

We are corporate & investment Consultants acting as solicitors for one Dr.
Avril Cummings, former commissioner for Income Tax of Republic of
Sierra Leone.

My client was formally residing in Accra, Ghana as a refugee due to
political and legal problems he is having with the government of Sierra
Leone under
President Tejan Kabbah.

My client was falsely accused of fraud and subsequently the Anti-Corruption
Commission (ACC) headed by Commissioner Val T. Collier slapped a phony
corruption charges on him and an arrest warrant was issued on him.

My client was a man of affluence, no doubt about that. He had acquired
enormous wealth, no doubt about that. But his wealth was not acquired
illegally neither had he solicited, accepted or taken any illegal advantage
as falsely accused by the
Anti-Corruption Commission.

As fate would have it, my client was fortunate to escape from Sierra
Leone and was residing as a refugee in Ghana. His enemies who traced where
he was residing as a refugee here in Ghana later killed him with the
corroboration of some high government officers. In the course of his
departure from Sierra Leone he was fortunate to have arrived in Ghana with
reasonable quantity of precious minerals and cash amount of (US$17.000.000)

My client Son will be prepared to finance your project or enter into a joint
venture with you subject to a due diligence period of one week to thoroughly
study your business plan etc. To that effect I, being the attorney will
like to join hand with you and get this
fund transferred into your account. Also I want you to note that the fund
was kept in the bank vault, and that it is our responsibility to clear out
any hindrance that would delay the smooth transfer of the fund.

Please percentage is negotiable upon your reply.Please be mindful that the
fund is of no criminal origin. The transfer and investment is necessitated
due to
political instability in the region.

Please let us know by returned mail if we could be of some help
in financing your project. Hope to hear from you.


Sincerely yours.
Mark Francis Esq

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