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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: "ade folarin" <folarin12003@handbag.com>
Reply-To: folarin12003@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:42:07 -0700
Subject: good day,



Dear Friend,


My name is Mr.Ade Folarin ,General Manager, Corporate and Investment
Banking Division (South) with Chartered Bank Plc,Nigeria. Lagos-Nigeria.I
came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company
to handle a confidential transaction on behalf of my Colleagues and
myself.As a matter of fact, I got your information from the Nigerian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry/Nigerian Export Promotion Council.

l write in respect of a foreign customer with A/C
Number:14-2558-2004,who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his
wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the money.

You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site;
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/> The owner of this
account Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great industrialistand a
resident of Alaska.

Since the death of this our customer! Mr. Morris Thompson, I have kept a
close monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since then. Nobody
has come forward to claim the money in this A/C as next of kin to the late
Mr. Morris Thompson. The total amount in the account US$15.5 million and
it is a domiciliary escrow bank account. It is only an insider,the account
owner or a next of kin who has information about the account that could
produce the Code or password of the deposit particulars. Also the funds
can only be released to a foreigner.

As it stands now, there is nobody in the position to produce the needed
information other than my very self-considering my position in the
bank.Based on the fact that Mr. Thompson's family perished in the same
flight accident, leaving no one to put claim of the deposit as the next
of
kin,so I am seeking for your co-operation to present you as the next of
kin to late Thompson, and arrange for the release ofthe funds to your
honour for our mutual benefit.

I! f thereis more delay in moving this money out, this money will be push
ed to the Treasury of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am willing to
share this money with you in the ratio of 70 - 30%. You shall have 30% of
the funds and I shall share the rest with my partner at the bank.I hope
this is a fair sharing?

I look forward to hearing from you urgently so that we can proceed
accordingly.I wait for your urgent response.this is my private e-mail

(folarin12003@handbag.com

Thanks and best Regards.

Mr Ade Folarin

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