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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: usmandadah@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:46:53 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?we=20=20can=2E?=

From The Desk of Alh.usman dadah
Manager;Credit and foreign Bills,
MAGNUM TRUST BANK PLC (MTB).
Dear Friend,
Private mail:alhusmandadah@yahoo.com
Compliments of the season. It is indeed my pleasure to write to you
this letter, which I believe will be a surprise to you, as we are both
complete strangers. I am Alh Usman dadah,i am the manager, credit and
foreign bills of MAGNUM TRUST BANK PLC
. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our Bank ,late Gene Billings
who perished in Egyptian Flight 990 with the whole passengers aboard on
31st Oct 1999.
( http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/ )Since the demise of this
our customer,I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next
of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds
of USD$18.7m[Eighteen million seven hundred thousand united states dollars]
which has been with my branch for a very long time.
On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next
of kin as no one has come up as his relation. And the country law here does
not allow such money to stay more than Ten years,for the money will be recalled
to the government treasury as unclaimed after this period.
Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you the application
form, bank's contact and the next step to take.I will not fail to bring
to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalised
within five working days, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the
deceased.
When you receive this letter, Please I will like to receive bellow
informations of you on your response to this mail.
1.Your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication.
2.your age and sex
3.your occupation and position
I will be very happy if you can treat this business with the utmost
secrecy it demands because of my position in this bank. Hoping for a
very successful business relationship with you. please do reply me on my
private mail:alhusmandadah@yahoo.com
Respectfully submitted,
Alh Usman dadah



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