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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.
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• 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.
  • veroleyton22@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MISS VERONICA LEYTON <missveroleyton54@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <missveroleyton22@yahoo.es>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:03:11 +0100
Subject: Dear One,



Dear One,
With utmost secrecy i despatch this email to you, to enable you understand my plight.
I am a senior staff with the Continental Savings Bank PLC here in Benin Republic .
I was the sole account officer to the late Mr Christian Eich who is an engineer of carmaker BMW's museum here in Benin .
For the past years, I had assisted him in transferring over One Hundred and Eighteen Million Euros to his various bank accounts out side Africa which was not traceable even after his untimely death on the AF4590 crash includes all 109 people on board.
Below is a website which I will appreciate you going through to read the information.<<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>>
As the sole account Manager, I diverted Nine Million Euros to our financial branch in Europe and quickly diverted the renaining Nine Million-Five Hundred Thousand Euros to a Proxy account with my bank -CSBPLC here in Benin Republic were I work presently as Debt Reconciliation Officer.

What I want from you is to bare your heart sincerely to me if you will accept and decide to co-operate with me in receiving this money safely into a foreign account of yours as the beneficiary. The proxy account detail information’s are with me personally which I shall give to you with other vital information’s for easy remittances of the fund to your foreign account.
The terms and conditions of your assisted service will be discussed on a good business understanding agreement between both of us as we commence.
Thanks in anticipation to receive your response.

MISS Veronica Leyton
Debt Reconciliation Officier
Email:veroleyton22@yahoo.es
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