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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • mr.hurunamustafa1@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mr huruna mustafa <mr.hurunamustafa5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mr.hurunamustafa@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:38:11 +0000
Subject: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED



INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE NEEDEDCAN YOU HELP US INVEST OUR LATE FATHER FUND?????

Dearest Beloved,

Please kindly go through this letter before you pass judgment because I am in need of assistance. I am Mr.Huruna Mustafa the son of late Dr. Malik Mustafa from Sierra Leone. I must confess my agitation is real and my words is my bond in this proposal.
My late father is a farmer and happened to be in control of a large number of farms including cattle’s and sheep rearing before he was poisoned by his foreign business partners in Paris with my mother in one of their farmers association meeting because of greed.

But before his death my late father deposited some amount of money outside our country in bank at the tone of Four Million United States Dollars $4,000.000.00. So I and my little sister are no longer safe here as the present government of Sierra Leone are working with almost all the killers of my late father as one of them has just been made a minister,name undisclosed because of security reasons.
Furthermore we have contacted the bank where the money is deposited and the bankers let us understand that they signed an agreement with our late father that the total money must be transferred into his foreign business partner account undisclosed to them and that is the major reason why i am contacting you now for assistance.All I needed from you now is your full names and address including your direct and personal telephone number for easy communication as you know that this transaction is a very confidential one.

Please Kindly get back to me immediately after you must have gone through my message fill free and make it urgent. That is the reason why I offered you 15 % of the total money amount, and in case of any other necessary expenses you might incure during this transaction.

N.B Try and negotiate for me some profitable blue chip investment opportunities which is risk free which I can invest with this money when it is transferred from the bank here, personally I am interested in estate management and hotel business, please advise me. For more explanation write me through my alternative e-mail address (mr.hurunamustafa1@yahoo.fr)

And promise me and my younger sister to be a good guardian considering our situation and not to betray us.

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Best regards
Mr.Huruna Mustafa

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