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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "outstanding contractors" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
  • "(ecowas)" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "liberia" (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.
  
• 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.
  • drdavisraymond@walla.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3adrdavisraymond@walla.com

Fraud email example:

From: "DEPT OFFICE" <deptoffice9@ig.com.br>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:17:10 +0100
Subject: SUBJECT: ACCOUNT PROVISION FOR CONTRACT PAYMENT.


FROM THE DESK OF DR JOHN MICHAEL
CHAIRMAN ECOWAS CONTRACT AWARDING
COMMITTEE ECOWAS FUND HEADQUARTERS
P.M.B.5028 ACCRA-REPUBLIC OF GHANA
EMAIL:drdavisraymond@walla.com <EMAIL%3Adrdavisraymond@walla.com>




ACCOUNT PROVISION FOR USD10.5MILLION


I am Dr. John Michael. The chairman, Contract Awarding Committee of the
Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) with its fund
headquarters in Accra Ghana. I got your information in a professional
database when I was searching through Internet for a reliable, honest and
trustworthy person to entrust this business with. I was simply inspired and
motivated to pick your contact from the many names in the list of the
directory. After discussing my view and your profile with my colleagues,
they were very much satisfied and decided to contact you immediately for
this mutual business relationship. We wish to transfer the sum of USD10,500,
000.00 (TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) into
your personal account.



This fund was a residue of the over invoiced contract bills awarded by us
intentionally for the supply of hard/soft wares, pharmaceuticals/ medical
items, light and heavy duty vehicles, apparels and other
administrative/logistics for the ECOMOG in Sierra-Leone and Liberia during
the peace keeping projects.



This deal was deliberately hatched out and carefully protected with the
cooperation and mandate of the financial director and the secretary of the
organization. We arranged and over invoiced the contract funds supplied by
different companies from different countries during the crisis. It was our
consensus to seek the assistance of a willing foreigner to provide us with
the facilities to transfer this money out of West Africa . This is borne out
of our belief in the non-stable and porous political nature of this
sub-region. It is however agreed, as the account owner in this deal to allow
you 30% of the entire sum as compensation, 65% will be held on trust for us
while 5% will be used to defray any incidental charges and cost during the
course of the transaction.


This transaction will be successfully concluded within 14 days if you accord
us your unalloyed and due cooperation. You should provide the followings for
immediate kickoff of this deal if it interests you,YOUR COMPLETE ADDRESS TEL
AND FAX NUMBER. Upon the receipt of this information, application for claim
will be sent to you to fill and return back to the organization in pursuit
of the claim legally and then be forwarded to the organization for
ratification and subsequent payment. As with the case of all organized
(sensitive) and conspired deals, we solicit for your unreserved
confidentiality and utmost secret in this business.



We hope to retire peacefully and lead honorable business life afterwards.
There are no risks involved. Kindly expedite action if you are interested as
we are behind schedule to enable us utilize this golden opportunity pay out
this fund immediately which we might stand to loose, if we fail to provide a
safe account for this transfer on time at the expiration of this year ECOWAS
has mapped out for payment of all their outstanding contractors and the
dissolution of our committee. Please urgency is needed as we do not know the
time our organization will start the payment hence it is necessary to start
on time to forestall any hitch while transferring the fund into your
designated account.

Hoping to hear from you through my private email: drdavisraymond@walla.com




Best regards.

Dr. John Michael.
REPLY HERE: drdavisraymond@walla.com

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