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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: "francos lambert" <francoslambert3000mfj@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:20:56 +0000
Subject: attn

Dear,

My name is Mr.Francos lambert,I am the operational manager in account
management section incharge of credit and foreign bills of one of the prime
banks here in South Africa. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of
my bank who perished on EGYPTIAN Boeing 737 PLANE CRASH into the red sea
with the whole passengers aboard.

There is an account opened in this bank by this great late diamond and oil
magnet who died without a written or oral WILL attatched to the account.
Since his death , I personally has watched with keen interest to see the
next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his
funds and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning
it,the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the
manager of his company.

The total amount involved is 48,223,000.00 USD.[ Forty eight million two
hundred and twenty three thousand United States Dollar ]. We wish to start
the first transfer with $8,000,000.00[Eight million] and upon successful
transaction without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for
the transfer of the remaining balance to your account.

I have secretly discussed this matter with the manager of the bank who I
must involve in order to
have a smooth and a successful transfer of the fund to any foreign bank
account which you are going to nominate. On this note, I want you to act as
the foreign beneficiary of the fund from the deceased by providing your bank
account where the fund will be transferred for immediate investment on any
viable project as no one has come up to be the next of kin.

The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than 2 years
without claim hence the money will be recalled to the government treasury as
unclaimed after this long period of domancy.

In view of this I got your contact through my personal search to see if you
can assist by providing your safe bank account for the transfer or find a
reliable person who will be capable of receiving such amount in his or her
personal account.At the conclussion of the transfer 65% of the fund will be
for me, I will give you 20% of the total transfer sum, 10% for charity both
in Africa and in your country while the remaining 5% will be set aside to
settle expenses both parties might incure during the transfer process.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you a detailed information
about the transaction.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
business is 100% risk and trouble free and that you should not entertain any
fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within 7 to 9
banking days, after you apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund
from the deceased.

When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail or you can call me or
fax me. You should also include your private fax and phone numbers for easy
and safe communication.

My personal contact informations are as follow.

Tel: 874 - 76 - 3648313
Fax: 874 - 76 - 3648315

Have a nice day.

Respectfully yours,

Mr.Francos Lambert

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