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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: hooper <celehooper@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:54:47 +0800
Subject: Good-day



Commonwealth Bank of Australia,
18 Bank Place Melbourne,
Australia,
9th November, 2004.

Dear Respected friend,

This is a proposal in context but actually an appeal soliciting for
your unreserved assistance in consummating an urgent transaction
requiring
maximum confidence. Though this approach appears desperate,I can assure
you that whatever questions you would need to ask or anyother thing you
will need to know regarding this proposal will be adequately answered
to give you a clearer understanding of it, so as to arrive at a
successful conclusion.

My name is Dr. Celestine Hooper, Head of securities, Commonwealth Bank
of Australia, Melbourne. On December 6, 1998, a foreign
consultant/contractor with the Cadbury Kenya Ltd,Mr. Mohamed Showadfy
Ahmed,made a
numbered time (fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at
US$30,000,000.00, (Thirty Million United States Dollars) in my branch.
Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address
but
got no reply. After a month, I sent a reminder and finally we
discovered
from his contract employers, the Cadbury Kenya Ltd, that Mr. Mohamed
Ahmed died in the october,1999 Egypt air rash.You can visit the sites
to
confirm this:

http://www.greatdreams.com/PassEAir990.htm
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html

On further investigation,I found out that he died without making a
WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I
therefore
made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Mohamed Ahmed
didnot declare any next of kin or relations in all his official
documents,including his Bank Deposit paperwork in our Bank. I have
carefully moved
out these funds(US$30million)from our bank as sundry funds to an
offshore Deposit Company in the European Union. From past experiences,
I know
that no one will ever come forward to claim the deceased funds.
According to Australian Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years,the
funds will be Unclaimable and revert to the ownership of the Australia
Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. In order to avert this
negative development, I in conjunction with a colleague (the Chief
Operating Officer in the bank) now seek your permission to allow my
attorney
do a CHANGE OF WNERSHIP/REASSIGNMENT OF CREDIT of stated funds from
the! "deceased" to your name, so that the funds(US$30million) would be
released to you as the new owner (on behalf of my colleague and
myself).
We are writing you because, as public servants, we cannot operate a
foreign account or have an account that is more than 160,000:00.
Consequently, I will present you as the owner of the funds in the
Deposit Company so you can be able to claim them. This is simple. I
will
like you to provide immediately;

1. Full names
2. Contact address
3. Telephone and fax numbers

Once I receive these information, I will prepare the necessary
documents which will put you in place as the new owner of the funds.
The money will then be released to your custody by the Deposit Company,
for us to share in the ratio of 70% for us and 30% for you.There is no
risk at all as all the paper work for this transaction will be done by
the solicitor and this will guarantees the successful execution of this
transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via my
email address. Upon your response,I shall then provide you with more
details and my confidential phone number for further explanation that
will
help you understand the transaction.

No doubt this proposal will make you apprehensive, please we implore
you to observe utmost confidentiality and rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us because we shall
require
your assistance to invest our share in your country (buying of
properties
like real estate etc). This is why your urgent action and response is
of priority to enable us conclude this transaction in a timely and
professional manner.I await your urgent response please through
my alternative/private email below:

hoopcele@netscape.net

Thanks for anticipated and kind co-operation.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Celestine Hooper




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