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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: "Abdullaziz Karmis." <a_karmiz@post.cz> (may be fake)
Reply-To: a_karmiz@indiatimes.com
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:38:27 +0400
Subject: Further details awaits your response

Good Day,

Before I introduce myself, I wish of inform you that
this letter is not ahoax mail and I urge you to treat
it serious. I am Dr.Abdullaziz Karmiz, a banker of the
MASHREQ BANK DUBAI, UAE.

I am the Accounts officer of Engineer Late Mr Mark J.
Alfred,who was until his death,a contractor and
Crude Oil merchant in UAE. Mark, his wife and
their children were involved in the Kenya airline
plane crash. Since then I as his accounts officer in
the bank, have made several enquiries in the Embassy
of his country to locate any of his extended relatives
or available next of kin,without any success.

I came across your name and contact,on the course of
my personal searching for Mr Mark relations,

so I decided to contact you for this project.

I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and
securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit
account by Mark,before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by my bank.The
board of my bank,has issued a notice that after 2
months from now and no next of kin shown up for the
claim,the funds will be confiscated and declared
unserviceable.

Since have been unsuccessful in locating Mr Mark.
relatives for sometime now, I seek your
consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the
deceased since you are a foreigner,so that the proceed
of this deposit valued at USd$12.5 Million Dollars can
be released to you.

The bank will release the funds to any foreigner who
has all related information/documents to the bank
account.I am in charge of this matter in my bank,
because I am his accounts officer.

Your application will be directed to my department for
verification and approval.

Every thing is under my control.I shall provide you
all the information and copy of the certificate of
deposit issued to Late Mr Mark when he deposited the
funds.I shall also introduce you to an attorney who
shall represent you in all the appropriate offices for
the claim.I also have all necessary information we
need for the claim and once the money is transferred
to you,I shall destroy all the documents used for the
claim and leave no traces.After everything,you shall
have 40% of the total sum, while 60% for me.

All requires is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this business successful.I guarantee that this
will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect us from any breach of the law.Late Mark
was a very good man and it is not wise to allow his
hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy
directors of my bank.

Further details awaits your response by

PLEASE,TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.

Best Regards,

Dr Abdullaziz Karmis.

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