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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: millah@handbag.com
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:07:28 +0100
Subject: Your Attentsion

Dear Sir/Madam,


As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I
believe everyone will die someday. My name is Millah Khalid a
merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been diagnosed with
Esophageal cancer.It has defied all forms of medical treatment, and
right now I have only about a few months to live, according to
medical experts in Hong Kong.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really
cared for anyone(not even myself) but my business. Though I am very
rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only
focused on my business as that was the only thing I cared for. But
now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than
just wanting to have or make all the money in the world.
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Now t, I have given most of my property and
assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few
close friends.
I have decided to give also to charity organizations, as I want this
to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have
distributed money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria
and Malaysia. Now that my health is deteriorated so badly before I
was flew to Hong Kong,so I cannot do this myself anymore.

I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and
distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in
Bulgaria, Pakistan and thailand where tsunami has claimed so many
lifes, they refused and kept the money to themselves.

Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended
with what I have left for them. The last of my money which no one
knows of is the huge cash deposit of $15,500,000.00 U.S Dollars Fifteen
million five hundred thousand dollars that I have with a Bank in
Europe.

I will want an honest person with sympathetic mind that will send
his profile to confirm his dignity to help me COLLECT THIS DEPOSIT
AND DISPATCHED it to charity organizations to help the victims of the
tsunami diseaster .

You can contact me via my personal email address below:(millah@myself.com)



Because this is the only way possible to communicate based on my
present state.

sincerely yours

Millah Khalid,



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