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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: david_absabank@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:47:15 +0200
Subject: THIS MAIL IS VERY URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

FROM MR.DAVID THEMBA
DIRECTOR, BILLS AND EXCHANGE,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT AMALGAMATED BANK.
[ABSA BANK LTD]. SOUTH AFRICA.
E-mail;davidthemba_sbsabank@hotmail.com


CONFIDENTIAL
Hello

Good Day


I am MR.DAVID THEMBA, The Director of bills/exchange at the foreign Remittance
department of Amalgamated Bank [ ABSA Bank Limited], South Africa. I have
decided to contact you through this medium based on a business proposal,
which will be of mutual benefit to both of us. However be Informed that
I discovered your company/person through your country's Directory. here
in South Africa when I was searching of a foreign business partner whom
I will transfer this fund in his personal or company?s account, that is
why I contacted you,

During a usual bank auditing, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$25.5
million dollars (Twenty five million five Hundred Thousand united state
dollars) in an account that belong to one of our foreign customers (MR ANDREAS
GREG) who died along with his entire family on November 1999 in a ghastly
car accident. Since we got the information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money, because we can
not release it unless some body apply for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately, no body has come forward to claim this money. It is based
on this that some officials in my department and I have decided to establish
a cordial business relationship with you, that is why I am contacting You.
If you indicate interest in this affairs, our Attorney shall prepare some
documents, which we shall Send to you and your name shall be incorporated
as a Beneficiary of this fund (NEXT OF KIN OF MR ANDREAS GREG) The information
shall be backdated and put in MR ANDREAS GREG'S FILE.

As soon as I get your response to this massage, I will send you the bank
transfer form which you will fill and fax it back to us to enable us submit
it to the bank for transfer approval. I will also consult a lawyer who will
represent you in all legal procedures and sign the necessary documents before
the transfer will commenced. Then again, we do not want the money to go
into the Government account as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any account Abandoned
or dormant for a period of years is deemed Closed and all money contained
therein would be Forfeited to the government treasury account. Now it is
being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the government
account as an Unclaimed fund on or before october 2004. The mode of sharing
after the transfer of the money into your nominated account will be:70%
for me And my colleagues and 25% will be given to you for the Role you will
be expected to play in the whole procedure, and 5% will be mapped out for
expenses both of us will incure in this transfer if this proposal matches
with your inward intension for success and greatness, then you are urged
to make a quick response indicating your readiness and Interest to participate
in the business.

I expect your Urgent response through this e-mail address or please send
me your private telephone and fax numbers to enable us to Conclude this
transfare soon enough. Please treat this business proposal As strictly
Confidential for our mutual long-term benefit. Hoping to hear from you very
Soon.

Best Regards

MR.DAVID THEMBA
{ABSA BANK LTD.}


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