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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: vin martinz <vin_martinz9@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: vin_martinz1@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:13:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FROM DR. Vin.Martinz.


DR. Vin.Martinz.
18 WALTON CLOSE
JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA.


{FUND TRANSFER}
(THIRTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS)

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

We want to transfer to overseas ($36,000.000.00USD) Thirty Six million United States Dollars) from a Bank in Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down either now or in future.
I am DR. Vin.Martinz.the Auditor General of a bank in Africa,during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is MR CHRIS P BENJAMIN, as foreigner, and also he was the Executive Director of the Gold Mining Cooportion he died in a plane crash with the family on the way to summer holidays in Egypt, since 1993,no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved that to me.

We will start the first transfer with six million ($6,000.000) upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount to your account.
The amount involved is (USD36M) Thirty Six million United States Dollars, only I want to first transfer $6,000.000M [Six million United States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without a valid International foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in us Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr Chris P Benjamin is a foreigner too, and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.
I am revealing this to you with believe that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit.
N/B an Empty account that is vaild can still serve for this proposal or you can set up a New account for this same proposal.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine.
Because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will never, never let me down. With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer this money to any bank of your choice.

I AWAITING YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.

Regards,

DR. Vin.Martinz.


























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