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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: "cambell cindy" <cambellcindy_2@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 02:08:38 +0000
Subject: RE;URGENT MESSAGE CONTACT ME

Dear,Friend

Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that everything will be well at the end
of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction. Let me start by
introducing myself properly to you. I am Dr. Cambell Cindy,
an audit officer with Barclays Bank,
Accra,Ghana.
THE PROPOSITION:
A Foreigner, a Lebanese, Late Engr.Ahmad Hazim Omer,
a merchant with The Federal Government of Ghana,
Formerly working at WIT Watersrand Accra Gold Mine,
Accra, Ghana. Until his death months ago in Kenya Air
Bus (A310 -304) Flight KQ431, He banked with us at
Barclays Bank Accra and had a closing balance as at
the end of September, 2002 worth $13,800.000.00
(Thirteen Million eight hundred thousand United State
Dollars),(this is aside the incurred interest so far
from that date).
The bank now expects his next of kin as beneficiary.
Valuable efforts are being made by the Bank to get in
touch with any of the Omer's Family or Relatives but
to no success.
It is because of the perceived possibility of not
being able to locate any of Late Engr. Ahmad Hazim
Omer's next of kin that we contact you. (He had no
wife or children that is known to us).
The Management under the influence of our Chairman
and Members of the Board of Directors, have been
making arrangements to have the fund declared
"Unclaimed" and subsequently be donated to the trust
fund for arms and ammunition acquisition by the
Government, since they(the Government) has control
over financial institutions.
In order to avert this negative development, some of
my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission
to have you stand as next of kin to the late
Engr.Ahmad Hazim Omer so that the fund will be
released and paid into your Account as his next of
kin. Your nationality doesn't matter as myself and my
colleagues will work out everything concerning that to
suit the purpose.

All documents and proves to enable you get this fund
will be carefully worked out. We have secured from the
probate registry, an order of Mandamus to locate any
of the deceased's beneficiary(ies), and more so we are
assuring you that this business is 100% Risk Free.
Your share will be 30% of the total sum while the rest
will be for my colleagues and myself for investment
purposes, according to agreement between both parties.
However, It might interest you to know that you can
claim the fund in our bank's main branch here in
Accra Ghana or in our corresponding bank in Spain or
Dubai.
Should you be interested in claiming the money from
our correspondent bank in spain, we have a colleague
in that bank who will offer you assistance in spain
and who will be willing to talk with you on phone as
soon as possible.
We shall arrange to change the name of the
beneficiary in your favor with our bank and also the
Probate Registry of the Government of Ghana.
Kindly indicate your interest to enable us make
arrangements to get the necessary supporting and back
up documents that will make you eligible to claim the
fund as his next of Kin.
Please note that for the purposes of confidentiality,
all further correspondeces would be through my email
address.Accept my warm regards as I await your
response.

Sincerely,
Cambell Cindy
alternative email:cambellcindy@hotmail.com
telephone:00233 244 507 193

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