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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: "g.compaore@yahoo.fr" <g_com91@unimail.mn>
Reply-To: g.compaore@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:23:34 +0200
Subject: Looking forward to hearing from you
Attention please,
I am Mrs Gloria Compaore the bank manager of BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) BURKINA
FASOWEST AFRICA BRANCH.
I am contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that you will keep
this as top secret and don't be scared or surprised, i am the manager of
BANK OF AFRICA and i have an opportunity to transfer sum of US$10.5MILLION
(TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATE DOLLARS) I have the courage to look
for a reliable and Honest Person who will be capable for this important
business Transaction, believing that you will never let me down either now
or in Future.
The owner of this account is MR RON MORRIS, foreigner and he is the Manager
Of petrol chemical service, a chemical engineer by Proffession.He died with
his entire family were among the victims of December 25, 2003 Air-Crash
Incident in Benin , The bank has made series of efforts to contact any of
the relatives to claim this money but without success, you can confirm
through this website:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/ and my
Investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything
About this account. I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign
account abroad but I Don't know any foreigner,I know that this message will
come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before,but be sure that
it is real And A Genuine business. hope that you will never let me down in
this transaction, at the conclusion of this business,you will be giving 40%
of the total amount, 50% for me and 10% for expenses.
I look forward to your earliest reply by email for more detail.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Mrs Gloria Compaore
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