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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • dumuhev01@ubbi.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: vanedumh@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:50:44 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Transaction,


Good day,
 
My Name is Mr Evans Edumuh, the Head of Finance/Contracts Approval Dept - Benin Energy and Mines Industry. I am making this Business Proposal to you with the
trust that you can handle it.

It is Five million eight hundred thousand Euro Contract Payment. The contract payment belongs to a foreign contractor (Name withheld).He supplied trucks, tractors, light and heavy industrial equipments and installations to our industry. The contract was satisfactorily executed and completed in November 2003 and the payment was approved in February 2004.

But since the approval of the contract payment in Feb 2004, the foreign contractor has not shown up to receive the payment. All efforts to contact him or any of his relatives have been in vain.

It was just few Months ago I discovered that the foreign contractor died in a plain crash along with his wife (Partner) and their only daughter before the contract payment was approved. So the contract payment has no other registered beneficiary now. See details of the plane crash from the below
Website;http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

I am contacting you to use my position as the Head of Finance/contract approval department to recommend you as the business partner to the deceased so that the
contract payment will be paid to you. I will use my position to update all the deceased Payment Receiving File in your Name as his business partner and when this payment is paid to you, seventy percent of the payment will be for me and you shall have thirty percent.

Note; the procedure for the release of this payment is a straight process that will not incriminate you in anyway what so ever. So my assurance is that your role is risk free and I can assure you that if I can have your total co-operation, this fund will be paid to you within (7) working days.

I will send you the procedures when you respond to this email. In your reply include your full names, address and your telephone numbers.
 
You can as well email me through this email address: dumuhev01@ubbi.com
Please treat as urgent and confidential.
 
Best regards,
 
Mr Evans Edumuh.
 

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