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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.
  • samson_tudor82@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: samson tudor <samson_tudor150@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:31:47 +0000
Subject: good


From: The Manager,
SG - SSB
Accra, Ghana.

Dear Partner,

Please pardon me if you are offended upon receiving this proposal since we have no formal contact.

Samson Tudor is my name and I am the branch manager of SG - SSB. I write to solicit your kind assistance in a fund transfer deal of US$ 2,500.000.00.

This fund is the excess of the profit made by this Bank during the year 2005. As the manager, I have already submitted an approved End of the Year report for the year 2005 to my Head Office and they will never know of this Excess.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account. I intend to part with 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me.

All I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund. The process is very simple. If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response.

In your response please include your FULL CONTACT DETAILS such as

NAME, PHYSCIAL ADDRESS, AGE, SEX, OCCUPATION, PHONE, FAX, EMAIL, With these details I will submit to the bank in custody of the fund as the depositor and beneficiary of the fund once I do this they will issue you with the deposit document technically making you the OWNER of the fund and with this document you will order for the transfer of the fund to your designated account,

With Kind regards,

Samson Tudor

Note! Reply to this email: samson_tudor82@yahoo.com

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