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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: glennhugh@tiscali.it
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 01:15:13 +0200
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT

Attention,
Dear Friend


PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

My name is GLENN .A.HUGH, I am the credit manager in a bank
here in the United Kingdom. I am contacting you of a business transfer,
of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction
of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring
you that everything has been well taken care off, and all will be well at
the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction.
To ease your apprehension, I got your contact from the British
chambers of commerce and industry, foreign trade division.

PROPOSITION;

I am the account officer of a foreigner named Gerald Welsh who died
in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an
Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this
from the website below which was published by CNN.WEBSITE.


http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html


Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for
this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident(May
his soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next
of kin to the deceased,as all documentations will be carefully worked out
by me for the funds (US$5,000,000.00) to be released in your favour as the
beneficiary's next of kin. Because after four years the money will be called
back to the bank treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst
the directors of the bank. so it is on this note i decided to seek for
whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds
rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst themselves
at the end of the year.

It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an
order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please
acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you
are interested.
1.A Beneficiary name;.In order for me to prepare the PAPERPWORK for
transfer of the funds in your name.
2.Details particulars of your contact address.
3. Direct Telephone and fax numbers;.For our personal contact.

I shall be compensating you with 40% of the total sum which is TWO
million dollars (US$ 2 Million dollars) on final conclusion of this
project for your assistance, US$500,000 will be given to charity from your
locality based on your recommendation while the balance US$2.5 million dollars
shall be for me for investment purposes. Because I intend to retire after
the conclusion of this transaction.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me immediately.
Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you by informing
you of this transaction from my bank as I will advise you to kindly desist
from responding at all if you do NOT intend to render any assistance.

Endeavour to respond via my confidential and official email address
which is glennhugh@tiscali.it

Thanks and best regards,
Glenn.A.Hugh.



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