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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • fisherpet@maktoob.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: PETER FISHER <fisher2x@msn.com>
Reply-To: <fisher_pet@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:18:04 +0000
Subject: IMMEDIATE CONTACT NEEDED:


Dear Sir/Madam,

Greetings!

I work as the Head of Fund Manager with Fidelity Investment UK, the
World Leading Investment & Fund Management Institution based in UK/Channel Island. I have an Investor under my portfolio with a
closing balance of $42.870m as his first initial deposit. This Investor
died three years ago leaving no WILL or AUTHORIZATION for re-transfer
of his Investment and its proceeds to the INHERITOR.

I have Personally carried out an Investigation on the subject matter
that took me 12 months to finalize and was made to understand that the
family or relatives of the Investor knows nothing about his Investment
with Fidelity and none have any records of all his deposits and
investment with us leaving an avenue for claiming of the said funds with its accrued interest on presentation of a trustworthy person that can stand as the INHERITOR to the deceased.

If you are interested, I can present you as the INHERITOR with proper
documentation that will qualify you to have the funds claimed, and on
doing this our establishment will not question the release of the funds
to you as I will make sure that we comply with the laid down rules and
laws of claiming the Investment of a deceased Investor in our Establishment.

Our sharing ratio will be 50:50. Please contact me for more detailed
breakdown if interested. Looking forward to hearing from you shortly.

Please reply me through my private email-address(fisherpet@maktoob.com).

Sincerely,
Mr. Peter Fisher.


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