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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "30% for you " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447045758746 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • advocate_tony_brown@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: legionoffice@ideaone.net
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:44:22 GMT
Subject: .....REPLY TO THIS MAIL (advocate_tony_brown@yahoo.com).com)

Crown Chamber
#32-477 hatshire Ext 5
Croyodon
United Kingdom
Email: advocate_tony_brown@yahoo.com
Tel:+447045758746

ATTN: Sir/ Madam,

I will like to start by introducing myself as Advocate Tony Brown.

I am soliciting a very confidential business proposal,which
involves the transfer of the amount of £ 10.5 Million GBP into
your personal bank account in your country for investment
purposes.

These funds originally belongs a Client of Mine by name Mr
Hafiz Muhammad Zubair Naseem,a citizen of Pakistan and a
former Credit Suisse investment banker convicted in a
multimillion-dollar insider trading plot.

Mr Hafiz Muhammad Zubair Naseem is currently being sentenced
in a U.S Court and shall spend a minimum of 10 years in Jail.

Please view this webpage for refrence:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/business/06txu.html

My client has asked me to help him transfer his funds which
are currently in an account here in HSBC Bank UK,into a
foreign account with obsolete secretcy.

Please note that this funds shall be used for investment
purposes on behalf of My Client and the funds shall be
transferred in your name.

After successful transfer of the funds into your bank account
in your country,My Client's wife and family shall come over to
your country to meet with you personally,for appropriate
sharing and investment of the remaining funds into your bank
account in your country.

Our offer is 30% for you and 60% for my clients family,and 10%
for covering any expenses incured during the process of
transferring the funds into your bank account in your country.
Please note that this 10% for repaying expenses,will only be
accessible when the funds reflect in your bank account in your
country.

If you are willing to assist in the success of this
transaction,please send the following details:
Name:
COUNTRY:
OCCUPATION:
AGE:
TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS:

Your banking details shall be requested from you as soon as
contact is established between us.

I await your response.
Advocate Tony Brown
advocate_tony_brown@yahoo.com
Tel:+447045758746


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