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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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Fraud email example:
From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: kahsa_jones17@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:36:26 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLEASE YOUR URGENT REPLY IS NEEDED
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: jones_kah02@yahoo.com
- I AM MR JONES KAHSA, the Bill and Exchange Manager of Union Togolaise Banque (UTB) Lome-Togo West Africa ,In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of USD$27.200.000. (Twenty seven Million two Hundred thousand Dollar)In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his family in July 2001 in a plane crash.,send me your contact information.1.Age.(2)Residential adress(3) occupation(4)private telephone, for more dateils:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm, Get back to me through this email kahsa_jones17@yahoo.com. MR JONES KAHSA
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