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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 orphan scam.
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  • jennieabend8088@yahoo.co.jp (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "jenni abe" <jenniabe11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jennieabend8088@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:59:00 -0400
Subject: From Miss: Jennifer Abend

From Miss: Jennifer Abend
Accra, Ghana.
Good day and how are you today together with your family, how are you today
together with your family? I hope fine? Please look not unto race or
religion, because this has been problem facing the world as a whole. please
do Permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or
foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I'm
Jennifer N Abend (18years old) from Cote d'Ivoire, and the only child of
Late Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Abend. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant
here in Cote d'Ivoire.
He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings
on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby. Before the death of my
father on May. 2006 in a private hospital there in Cote d'Ivoire, he
secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Eight
million five hundred and fifthy thousand United States Dollars USD
($8.550,000) deposited in a suspense account in one bank in Ghana. He told
me that he used my name (Jennifer N Abend) as the next of Kin to deposit the
money. He then strongly advised me NOT to seek for assistance in the
investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to
seek for a foreign partner from any country of my choice (outside my
country,Cote d'Ivoire ) that will assist me in the wise investment of the
money.I have since left the money in the bank with the view of making use of
it for investment purposes after my educational carrier. But as you may be
already aware by now, my country (Cote d'Ivoire ) is presently at war caused
by political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part
of the country and making efforts towards the capture of the commercial
center of the country(Cote d'Ivoire),
I am presently in Ghana,where the money was deposited my late father and
finally i decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out
of the country Ghana. I am presently in Ghana now, my uncles have collected
all my fathers properties saying that i am a female child that i do not have
any right in the family.
That is why i need your urgent assistance to transfer it out of the country
and I will use it for investment purpose like real estate management or
hotel management Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in
the following ways:
(1) To be my guardian and then assist me financialy to transfer the money
into your bank account.
(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my
education and then settle there parmanently.
I am willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your
assistance. Please let me know if you feel the percentage i offered is not
ok by you.As soon as i recieve your full assurance and corporation,I will
then give you the bank contact information and then tell them to transfer
the money into your account as i want to come over to stay with you
parmanently. You shall then be giving me information on when the transfer
will be over.
I shall send my picture to you and shall also need yours too. Please reply
me on my private email address: (jennieabend8088@yahoo.co.jp)
Thanks and God bless you.
Regards,
Miss. Jennifer

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