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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:

• 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.
  • @gawab.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Alfred Koffi" <alfred.koffi3@gawab.com>
Reply-To: alfred.koffi@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:32:41 GMT
Subject: My regards



Alfred Koffi
ICB Ghana.

Attn:

It is my pleasure to seek for your assistance, and you should
consider it very important. This is an opportunity i would want
us utilize well. I am Mr Alfred Koffi, an officer in charge of
Auditing and Accounting section with International commercial
bank LTD Ghana, and also a Relationship Account Officer to Dr
Salim Chidiac, a Lebanese.

He was a Seasoned Contractor with Ghana Cement Company in Ghana
Republic, who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union
Transport Africans Flight Boeing 727 in Benin republic in
December 25, 2003. You will read more stories about the crash on
visiting this
website:www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/

Before his death on the 25th December 2003, Dr Salim Chidiac,
has a fixed deposit account with the bank and no other person
knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account
has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that
his supposed next of kin died along with him in the crash. Since
then I have made several inquiries to locate any of my clients
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact
you. I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank to the government. Consequently, Since
I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 7
weeks now. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin
of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at
US$12.5 million can be paid to you and then you and me can share
the money in proportion 70% to me and 30% to you.

I sincerely request your honest co-operation to enable us see
this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from
any breach of the law. while it will take only 14 working days
the funds will be in your nominated Bank account. you should
forward the following information to me for a quicker
communication.

A. Your Full Name
B. Private telephone and fax number
C. Your Full location Address.

Yours Sincerely.
Alfred Koffi


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