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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: "bakayoko johnson" <johnsonbakayoko1@norilsk.tv>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:49:13 +0100
Subject: CONTACT THE COURIER COMPANY IMMEDIATELY.
Attn,
I have waited enough to send your cheque bank draf $980,000.00 united state
US dollars but i did not hear from you since ,and the time the bank draft
will be expired is getting near, I finally arranged with the bank manger of
FINACIAL TRUST BANK BENIN REPUBLIC MR PHILIP AMAGA and he has coverted the
bank draft into cash payemt and package it in a diplomatic box the
arrangement has been finalized with UNIVERSAL EXPRESS DELIVERY COURIER
COMPANY THE RELIABLE DELIVERY SYSTEM to send the package through diplomatic
courier service i have contacted them and they told me that you should
forward all this information below to them.Please carefully confirm your
full house address, your private mobial phone number and send it to them to
avoid wrong delivery of the consignmet to your doorstep.
FIRST NAME .......................
LAST NAME ...........................
OCCUPATION.............................
YOUR HOUSE ADDRESS...............
AGE..................................
YOUR PICTURE. ...........................
YOUR NEXT OF KIN .........................
TELPHONE NUMBER......................
FAX NUMBER...............................
HOUSE ADDRESS ...................................
NEAREST AIR PORT ...................................
PROOF OF IDENTIFICATION : (PASSPORT OR DRIVES' LICENSE
...................................
Also remember that they did not know the content of the box I registered it
as an Africa cloths. They don't know that it contents money. this is to
avoid them delaying with the delivery of the box to you .i don't want you to
let them know that the content of the box is money.
JUST FEEL FREE AND CONTACT THEM WITH THIS EMAIL
universal_express@live.fr
univesralexpress@live.fr
BATCH NO AX077
SHIPPMENT CODE 33XZS
THE AIRWAY BILL NUMBER.GX243KR
CONSIGNMENT REGISTERED CODE NO XGT442.
SECURITY CODE NO SCT/2071DHX3
CONTACT PERSON /MR VICTOR ADA.
ADDRESS NO5 AKPAKPA WHTIE HOUSE BULIDING 9TH FLOOR BENIN REPUBLIC.
TEL PHONE NUMBER..+229-93997638 OR +22997572729
BEST REGARS,
JOHNSON BAKAYOKO ESQ
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