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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • dianeabbott47@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3adianeabbott47@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "jane brown" <brownmatters07@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:15:23 -0800
Subject: CAN YOU DO THIS!!!


Dear Friend,

GREETINGS FROM THE UK HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT

I am Diane Abbott. Elected to the House of Commons when I was elected in the
1987 General Election; representing the London Constituency of Hackney north

and Stoke Newington, I was Britain's first Black woman MP. Under Her
Majesty,
Queen Elizabeth here in UK, served on the Treasury Select Committee of the
House of Commons which is a committee that deals with business and finance
matters.

I got your contact info in your country's national directory. Now, kindly
allow
me introduce a project that has to do with charity in your country and
neighboring countries around you.

What is your opinion to an offer to receive charity investment funds in
cash?
The said funds amount to Fourteen Million Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
(US)
which will be made available to you, in this same state.
The funds are strictly intended for the purpose of the rehabilitation of
charity organizations in your country, through you but will be initiated and

supervised by my lawyer.

This transaction will result to you being paid a commission of 15% of the
investment capital and the balance, distributed to charity organizations of
your choice or reinvested and the net income, used for rehabilitating
charity
organization in and around your country through your agency annually for the
period of five years or a little more.

You must understand that I desire absolute confidentiality and
professionalism
in the handling of this project. For security reasons as regards my
reputation,
I will not be able to communicate regularly with you; but my lawyer will
take
up the processing on my behalf and get these funds processed and released to

you without any delay.
I don't plan on benefiting anything from this project, but will be
absolutely
fulfilled, if and only if you will remain sincere to me on the handling of
this
project with utmost sincerity and confidentiality; and eventually utilize
the
funds for the purpose which I have explained to you above.

Please respond urgently if you are interested, so I can equip you with the
necessary details, along side my attorney's contact information, so as to
commence the transaction properly; on the other hand, if you are not, please

let your intentions be known or better still, Kindly relent from replying
this
email. You could get personal info. on me via the Parliament sites or on my
official website, but do not try to contact me via any personal information
you may lay your hands upon on the internet as almost all my contact info
are
connected to the British House of Parliament data base except the ones I
personally sent to you; as I don't want our effort, jeopardized.

If you receive a version of this email, which claims to be from Diane Abbott

and may mention a "charitable" or "profitable project", ignore immediately
as
it is not from me nor anyone connected to me.Kindly send your response to
this
E-mail:dianeabbott47@yahoo.co.uk <E-mail%3Adianeabbott47@yahoo.co.uk>

Any message you receive in my name without this email address is not from
me.

Sincerely,
Diane Abbott MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA London SE37 88AQ
http://www.dianeabbott.org.uk

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