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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: "ALI KONE" <alikone@alikone.us>
Reply-To: alikone@sify.com
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:34:56 +0200
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL


Attn:

I work as the auditor with African Development Bank Ouagadougou Burkina
Faso,I have an Investor under my portfolio with a closing balance of $30
million his first initial deposit.

This Investor died 31 july 2000 leaving no WILL or AUTHORIZATION for
re-transfer of his Investment and its proceeds to the INHERITOR and because
of the laws here in Burkina Faso.

I have personally carried out an Investigation on the subject matter that
takes me 9 months to finalize and was made to understand that the Family or
Relatives of the Investor knows nothing about his Investment and none have
any records of all his deposits and investment with us leaving an avenue for
claiming of the said funds with its accrued interest on presentation of a
trustworthy person that can stand as the INHERITOR to the deceased.

Like I said before there is no risk involve as it will pass through
international banking laws and all the necessary information will be given
to you in later.I do not want any direct link between you and me. My
official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to
assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management
Policy. Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I
am a family man, I have wife and children. I send you this mail not without
a measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that
nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come
easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my
private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one
accord, we should plan a meeting soon.

I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard
this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer
is of no appeal to you,delete this message and forget I ever contacted you.
Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may
not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of
comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a
criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be
hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I
make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I
cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control
of my destiny. These chances wont pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy
my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with
my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity
to provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project
and it is a task well worth undertaking.

If you are interested, I can present you as the INHERITOR with all the
relevant informations and proper documentation that will qualify you to have
the funds claimed and on doing this, our establishment will not question the
release of the funds to you as I will make sure that we comply with the laid
down rules and laws of claiming the Investment of a deceased Investor in our
Establishment. Our sharing ratio will be 60:30 while 10% will be set aside
for any kind of expenses along the line.Please contact me for more details
breakdown if interested by sending me along with all these information's
bellow,

1}Your full name
2}Home and office address
3}Full phone and fax number
4}Marital status
5}Age
6}Nationality
7)Occupation

Thanks.

ALI KONE

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