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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:
Fraud email example:
From: "morris koku" <morriskoku@hosanna.net>
Reply-To: morriskoku@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:15:09 +0000
Subject: REPLY VERY URGENT.
* <sip594@yahoo.com.hk>*
*REPLY VERY URGENT.*
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***Good Day My good friend,*
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Let me start by introducing myself, I am Mr Morris Koku, the director of
file and computer department **in African Development bank in Ouagadougou
Burkina-Faso of West Africa.** *
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I am writing you this letter based on the latest development at my bank
which I will like to bring to your personal edification.($5million
transferclaims ).
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This is a legitimate transaction and you will be paid 40% for your
"Assistance".If you are interested, please write back for complete
information about the transfer and how we are going to proceed for a smooth
claim of this fund.
You can send your datas to me through my private email (
morriskoku@yahoo.com<http://us.mc632.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=morriskoku@yahoo.com>
)
Kind Regards
Morris Koku
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