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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:
Fraud email example:
From: jimpeters6@freenet.de
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:53:47 +0100
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETARY FOR YOUR $1.2 MILLION BANK DRAFT
Dear Friend,
I did not forgot your past effort and attempts to assist
me,now I\'m happy to inform you that i have suceeded in getting those
funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Spain.
Now Contact my secretary ask him for($1.200.000.00)for your
compensation his,name is Ayomide
Oriola.
E-mail:(anthonyvictor72@yahoo.fr)
1,Delivery
address........
2,phone number............
3,A copy of your
identity..............
4,Age..................
5,Occupation..........
Yours
Faithfully
Dr Jim Peters.
Unbegrenzter Speicher, Top-Spamschutz,
120 SMS und eigene E-MailDomain
inkl.
http://office.freenet.de/dienste/emailoffice/produktuebersicht/power/mail/index.html
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