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

Fraud email example:

From: Alhaji Shettima Bulama <alhajishettimabulama003@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: alhajishettimabulama@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:02:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear friend.


My name is Alhaji Shettima Mohammed Bulama the est. while managing director of the Bank of the North Nig.Plc.

I am contacting you in a benevolent spirit; utmost confidence and trust to enable us provide a solution to a money transfer of $18M that is presently the last resort of my family. I have just been released from detention on allegation of embezzlement which I did not do and has also been placed under surveillance of which i can not travel out of the country for now due to allegations leveled against me while in office as the Managing director of the bank of the north Nig. Plc of which he is facing litigations right now.

You may be quite surprised at my sudden contact to you but do not despair, I got your contact from a business site on the internet and following the information I gathered about you, I was convinced that you could be of assistance to me. So i decided to contact you at once due to the urgency required for us to immediately transfer the said funds to your bank account as i do not have the freedom and liberty to possess the funds now. During the time i was with the bank I made several loans to various oil firms and in return i was given various sums as gratifications. If you are conversant with world news, you would understand better. During this period i was able to make some good money for myself and kept in a private security finance accounts overseas as personal effects. Out of the money i made, i left the sum of U S $18M (Eighteen Million United States Dollars) which was kept in a Private security firm outside my country and i kept it in the vaults of this firm as
personal effects. The reason is because no names were used to lodge in the vaults containing the funds. Instead, i used PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS (PIN) and declared the contents as Bearer Bonds and Treasury Bills. Also the firm issued me with a certificate of deposit of the vaults.

Note that I have these documents in my custody right now. I need negotiate with a foreigner who assist me lay claim to the vault. I would believe that I owe my entire family an obligation to ensure that the US$18 M is successfully transferred abroad for investment purposes. With the present situation, I cannot do it all by myself. It is based on this that I am making this contact with you. I have done a thorough homework and fine-tuned the best way to create you as the beneficiary to the vault containing the funds and affect the transfer of the content of the vault accordingly to you. It is rest assured that the modalities I have resolved to finalize the entire project guarantees our safety and the successful transfer of the funds. So you will be absolutely right when you say that this project is risk free and viable. If you are capable and willing to assist, contact me at once via this email for more details.

Believe me, there is no one else we can trust again. All friends have deserted me after exploiting me on the pretence of trying to help my wife while i was in detention. As it is said, it is at the time of problems that you know your true friends. So long as you keep everything to yourself, we would definitely have no problems. For your assistance, I am ready to give you as much as 25% of the total funds after confirmation in your possession and invest a reasonable percentage into any viable business you may suggest in your country. Please, I need your assistance to make this happen and please do not undermine it because it will also be a source of up liftment to you also. You have absolutely nothing to loose in assisting us instead, you have so much to gain. I will appreciate if you can contact me at my private Email: alhajishettimabulama@hotmail.com
Waiting your urgent and positive response.

Thanks and Allah be with you.
Alhaji Shettima Mohammed Bulama.


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