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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Gregg Isaac" <greggisaac2@msn.com>
Reply-To: mr_gregg@latinmail.com
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:22:16 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT AND CALL ME 229 95 86 79 52

From:The Desk of mr GreggIsaac,
Bill & Exchange Manager.
African Development Bank,ADB.

Phone : 229 95 86 79 52
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND
PRIVATE
Dear Friend,

Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received your
informations on the net,in search of a partner for this business.Hence I
confide in from you

I am Mr GreggIsaac, from (African Development Bank).During the course of our
auditing,we discovered the sum of US12.500,000.00(Twelve Million five
Hundred Thousand Dollars) floating in an account opened in this Bank since
1997 and as from 2001 no body has operated on this account again,and after
going through some old files in the records,I discovered that the owner of
the account died without a [HEIR]on the 11th of sept 2001 by plane
crash,hence the money is floating.

After due verification I noticed that no other person knows about this
account except his wife who was also invovled in the crash.So,the account
has noother beneficiary.My investigation also proved that until his
death,hewas the Director GOLD ARK [SARL].

Since our bank(African Development Bank)Benin Rep,got informations about his
death,we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim this
money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of
kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and
policies which nobody up to date,came up to this bank as his next of kin or
relative.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release
the money to you as the next of kin or Relation to the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since no body is coming forth and we don't want
this money to go into the Bank treasury as an unclaimed Bill.

On this note, I decided to seek for your assistance in getting this fund out
of the bank into a foreign account,because the country law here does not
allow such money to stay more than Five years, or it will be recalled into
the government treasury as an unclaimed Bill after this period.

So therfore,upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you the
application form,banks contact and the next step to take in this
transaction.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and
that you should entertain no fear as all modalities for fund transfer would
definitely be finalized within a fourteen banking days, after you must have
applied to the bank as a relation to the deceased.

It has been resolved that 30% will be for you while 10% has been maped out
to defray any expences that might be incured during the process of the
transaction,while 60% will be for me and my coleagues,which shall be release
after the funds must have been remitted into your bank account.

When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail signifying your
decision.Including your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communicationI
will be very happy if you can treat this business with the utmost secrecy as
it demands because of my position in this bank,For confidentiality reasons.
kindly call me on my direct line and also reply only to my private box.

Waiting to hear from you,
Thanks.

Best Regards,
Mr greggIsaac
229 95 86 79 52

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