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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • alexkan1@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "alex kan" <alex_kan12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: alexkan1@myway.com
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:34:31 +0000
Subject: URGENTLY CONTACT DEEDED

120,Paul Kruger Street,

Boksburg South,

Republic of South Africa


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(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 26,000.000.00 USD}

{ TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS)



Hello,

Warmest greetings to you.I want to solicit your
attention to transfer to overseas (26,000,000.00 USD) twenty six million
United States Dollars from a Bank in Africa. I also want to ask you to
quietly
look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide
either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to
receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as
long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business
trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down either now
or in future.

I am Alex Kan. the Auditor General of a bank inAfrica, during the course of
our auditing I discovered a floating fund in anaccount opened in the bank
in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this
account again. After going through some old files in the records, I
discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the
money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. Leonald Howell, a
foreigner and a miner.

He made millions of dollars before he diedmisteriously .Since 1993 no other
person knows about this account or any thingconcerning it. My investigation
proved to me that the account has no otherbeneficiary and that Mr. Leonald
Howell until his death was the manager HowellCoy.(pty). SA.


We will start the first transfer with six million
dollars[$6,000,000.00] upon successful transaction without any disappoint
from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to
your account.

The amount involved is (USD 26M) twenty six millionUnited States Dollars, I
want to first transfer $6,000,000.00 [Six millionUnited States Dollars]
from this money into a safe foreigners accountabroad before the rest, but I
don't know any foreigner.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because thismoney cannot be
approved to a local person here without a validforeign international
passport, but can only be approved to any foreignerwith valid international
passport or drivers license and foreign a/c becausethe money is in US
dollars and the former owner of the a/c, Mr. LeonaldHowell was a foreigner
too, [and the money can only be approved into aforeign a/c].

I need your full co-operation to make this work finebecause the management
is ready to approve this payment to any foreignerwho has correct
information of this account, which I will give toyou, upon your positive
response and once I am convinced that you arecapable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeplyinvolved with me in this
business.

I need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down.So,
please reply urgently so that I will inform you thenext step to take . Send
also your private telephone and fax number includingthe full details of the
account to be used for the deposit and about
yourself.

With my influence and the position of the bankofficial, we can transfer
this money to any foreigner's reliable account whichyou can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending myphysical arrival in your
country for sharing.


I will apply for annual leave to get visaimmediately I hear from you that
you are ready to act and receive this fund in youraccount. I will use my
position and influence to obtain all legal approvalsfor onward transfer of
this money to your account with appropriateclearance from the relevant
ministrie
and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will begiven 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be forexpenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring.

I look forward to your reply soonest reply through
my email address.
alexkan1@myway.com

Sincerely,

Alex Kan

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