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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • bernardzulu1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: bernard@zulu3.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:55:47 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Collins Desimone Family


Collins Desimone Family
Dear Sir,
Please kindly help me to look for the family or friends of my boss Collins Desimone, who died recently during a war on white farmers in Zimbabwe. He’s a young, but a successfull farmer, he was killed, and his farm house also, was invaded by supporters of President Mugabe.
But before the incidence, my boss has made an arrangement and successfully moves his money and some valuables out of Zimbabwe, to Europe through a finance, depository firm in Spain, for onward transfer, because of the political, economic instability and the attack on white farmers in Zimbabwe.
I have worked and lived with Mr Collins Desimone as house help and driver for 5 years in Zimbabwe, before his untimely death, my boss, a nice gentle man, has never talked about wife or children, he only told me about his plans to retire home to the U.S and live and enjoy his money. But unfortunately for Mr Collins Desimone, he never escaped the attack.
However this money $15.4million USD is now with the finance depository company waiting to be transfer to any bank account outside Spain Or else the money will be forfeited to the finance company in Spain.
Recently I stumble over some documents, there I found all the transfer documents and the certificate of deposit of the sum of $15.4 Million USD to the Finance, depository firm in Spain.
Other documents contained the followings informations
· Online access Codes, Online bank transfer secret codes.
. Finance depository and trust company website.
I thought of instead of forfeiting the money to the finance company in Spain. I have decided to contact you,so you can help transfer this fund to your account for safe keeping. So you can think and start a good investment in your country. 5% of the fund will be set aside for any expenses inccured during the process of transfering the fund.
If you agree to assist, I am willing to give you 25% of the fund and also we will share the interest gain on the investment.
If you agree to help, I will forward all the documents and information to you. This will enable you do the transfer to your bank.
Just contact me through my email bernardzulu1@yahoo.com
Best Regards
Bernard Zulu.

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