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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • auchi7706@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Inno-Ekpen Ogeds." <ikuyajesinn@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: auchi7706@yahoo.es
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:03:01 +0100
Subject: OSHIOMHOLE IS THE MESSIAH FOR EDO-STATE

Fellow Edolites,have you not heard that Adams Oshiomhole is a rare breed whose experience and knowledge would help us for a better Edo-State?Now is the time to get serious about the challenges that confront Edo State . Under the ruling PDP government, the situation in Edo State is decadent, ugly, shameful and even annoying.The ugly state of Benin-city today symbolises the decay that eight years of PDP’s misrule has inflicted on Edo State . The roads are impassable; nightlife is impossible; the people are ravaged by poverty and unemployment; there are schools but no knowledge is being imparted into our children; there are hospitals but no healthcare. Benin-city, a capital city of about forty years, is now only a capital by virtue of its size. If Benin is hell, we can imagine how bad the other parts of the state are.Oshiomhole has the democratic credentials, courage, integrity and skills to engage and mobilise the people of Edo-State to become the best State in Nigeri
a.
A vote for Oshomhole and Odubu is a vote for every good thing in life.We Edos deserve the best and the best we must get through the Messiah.
VOTE FOR A OSHOMHOLE,VOTE FOR A BETTER LIFE.
I assure you,it is well with Oshomhole as Governor.
On behalf of the Ogedemgbe`s family and friends worldwide.
Signed:Imoudu Godwin,Okechukwu Aneke,Bashiru Aliyu and Innocent Ekpen Ogedemgbe.
email to:auchi7706@yahoo.es.
ogeds@topseven.com.

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