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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: Vivian Fredrick <vivian_fredrick001@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: vivian_fredrick@yahoo.cn
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:52:38 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Please read and get back to us by mail or call 0022507338955.


Mrs. Vivian / son Edwin Fredrick.
Abidjan Cote d'ivoire
West Africa.

Attn: The Director.


Introduction.

It is our pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my son Edwin intend to establish in your country.Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding to succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount of four million five Hundred thusand U.S dollars ($4,500.000) which my late husband kept with a fiduciary fund holding company here in Abidjan before his death.

Now we have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough within or outside Africa for security and political reasons. we want you to help assist us to claim and retrieve these fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes on these areas:

1). Telecommunication
2). The Transport Industry
3). Five Star Hotel
4).Real Eastate

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to from you on how much you will like to have as your percentage of the total fund, we will like you to get back to us via email or you can call us on 0022507338955, for us to discuss the ratio so that we shall negociate about it.

We await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,

Mrs. Vivian / son Edwin Fredrick.


0022507338955.

NB: Please note that this transaction will need your presence here but if you can not come then you let us know so that we shall talk with the company as to how to do to get it released to us.




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