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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: "MR PETER MARRIOT" <mr_peterm14@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: peterm@inMail24.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:06:56 -0700
Subject: OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
* THE BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT*
* **LONDON, ENGLAND*
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>From the Desk Of Peter Marriott*
*Office Of The Director**
British finance monitoring unit*
*It has come to our notice via our central monitoring computer that a huge
sum of money has been credited in your name for transfer and currently
floating in the international banking hall.
Under the stipulated enabling Law of the Government of Great Britain and
Wales and other member countries of the United Nations, any huge amount of
money that has been found in the international database system waiting to be
transfered without claims for a period of 6 months or more, shall be
confiscated and forfeited to the United Nations account.
We do hereby ask you to contact this office immediately for ratifcation
within the 3 days of this notice or consider your fund confiscated.We
appreciate your urgent co-operation. Always include the REFERENCE NUMBERS:
AUS2008UK in your emails to us. email address only :
peterm@inMail24.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=peterm@inMail24.com>
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15 - 07 - 2008
PETER MARRIOT*
*DIRECTOR BRITISH FINANCE MONITORING UNIT.*
[image: Peter Marriott]
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