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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 orphan scam.
• 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.
  • sule.abdul@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Hannam Saly <saly_hannam@rediffmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:04:42 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT INN

prince Saly Hannam abdurahman
16/18 Samba Breco Road, Cape Point
The Gambia
West Africa


Dear Sir/Madam

I am contacting you as a trustwhorthy person and a person who knows what business
is all about.i am prince Saly Hannam abdurahman, I need your assistance to enable
me transact a deal that has lasted for more than 27years now.

The UK's biggest arms dealer BAE Systems,a premier global defence and aerospace
company in united kingdom was awarded a contract for the sale of 72 Eurofigher
Typhoon aircraft, worth at least £40 billion, to Saudi Arabia. this contract was
negotiated by the ex-Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan to
facilitates the smooth transaction of this deal,the sum of 6billion pounds was
agreed to be given to the the ambassador.The said secret payments were made with
the full knowledge of the Ministry of Defence.the sum of over £120 million every
year were sent by BAE Systems from the UK into two Saudi embassy accounts in
Washington,which was then transfered to a security and finance company with
individual name of which my fathers name was one of them.

please click http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6728773.stm, for proper
understanding of th whole transaction.

My late father MAllam(King) Mohammad who was one of the men employed by the saudi
prince to launder the money secretely was given the sum of $23 million U.S.DOLLARS
as a sincere and dedicated fellow.

to avoid raisng eye brow and investigation,my late father MAllam(King) Mohammad
Suileman deposited this money in a security and finace company.the consignmnet was
deposited as a box containing precious stones.the money was deposited in 2001 and
he was poisoned in 2002 in america.in the document he filled with the company,he
stated that should anything happen to him,it is his oversea business partners/
associates that will claim the consignment.he did not put anybody's name and i do
not know any of this partners and the government has started looking into the
money that was laundered that tome but the then prince of saudi has denied
anything about that.maintaining his stand that he did not receive any bribe to
negotiate on the deal.even the british governmnet denied it as well.

Now please sir,i need your assistance to retrieve that box from the security
company as i am unfit to apply for it and besides he stated that it his foreign
partners that will be his next of kin.

We will share the fund as follows:

60% to me.

30% to you.

10% for expenses.

please my dear,i am under presure and that is why i need you to apply as the next
of kin.

please i prayed before mailing to you and i still beleive that you will be that
man i heard in mind that will not cheat me.

Please remember to keep everything concerning this transaction to yourself as
confidentiality is the only key to this expected success.reply to me so that i can
tell you what to tell the security company.all the documents relating to this
transactiuon are with me and i will need your absolute reply immdiately to enable
you rceive this in your country and i will now meet you there for the sharing.they
have told me to search for the person and i need you to be that person
i am in Gambia and does not have access to make outside phone calls but can send
mails wihout anybody knowing.
ilost my only sister in this plane crash that happened on 16/9/2007 at thailand
and my condition is miserable now.please i need your help sir
see this web on the plane crash
1)www.springfieldnewssun.com/n/content/shared-gen/ap/Asia/Thailand_Plane_Crash.html

2)http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6990000/newsid_6997700/6997719.stm

thank you and may allah see you through.please my dear reply me with this email so
that we can work will start immdiately:sule.abdul@rediffmail.com
Saly Hannam abdurahman

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