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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Mr.Micheal Ezeh" <info_egobia@quickhourday.org>
Reply-To: meze09@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:18:02 +0000
Subject: Hello
GREETINGS,
I am Mr Micheal Ezeh the manager of a representative of Prudential Insurance Company.In my department, i discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.5 Million dollars (Ten million Five Hundred dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers(John Shumejda) who died in a plan crash on 4 January 2002. You can view this CNN site for more
details.http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/04/england.plane/
I need a reliable someone with a foreign account to be able to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to claim this money. Should you be willing to complete this transaction, send to me your private telephone number to email address (meze09@yahoo.com.hk) for easy and effective communication and location.
As soon as the transfer is concluded you are entitled to 40% of the total fund.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you more details on this transaction trusting to hear from you.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr Micheal Ezeh
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