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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: eaku1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:18:03 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Act=20As=20Next=20Of=20Kin=20?=




Dear Holland,


I hope that this letter will not constitute a sort of embarrasement to you.Please
bear with me let me introduce myself. I am Barrister Elvis Aku, a private
attorney to the deceased as mentioned herein.Mr.Emmanuel Holland,a National
of your country,who was a consultant with an Oil servicing Company in Nigeria
and a personal friend who left behind his deposit ina finance house ( BANK
) valued at$9,5 000.00(Nine Million Five hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only). My relationship with Late Emmanuel started in 1992 when I
was working with the Finance House as the Legal Advisor, We met in my social
club's annual end of the year party and I introduce dhim to the Finance
company where he deposited his funds some few weeks later.


As a result of my assistance to, he made me his LEGAL Officer to
the account which he operated until his unfortunate demise On the 1st of
June 2001, Mr.Emmanuel , his wife and their three children were involved
in a car accident . All his family members who were with him lost their
lives.Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of Mr. Emmanuel's
extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful
attempts to locate any member of his family, hence I have contacted you.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by Mr.
Emmanuel before they get confiscated since the BANK has declared the
account unserviceable.

I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2
years now.I therefore seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin
of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at $9,5,000.00
(Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) can be paid
to you and then you and I can share the money. 55% for me and 45% to you.I
have access to all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up
any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable
us see this transaction through.I guarantee that this transaction will be
conducted under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law.

Note: Please get in touch with me through my email address and
send to me your full names,telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss
further about this transaction.

Best regards,
Barrister Elvis Aku







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