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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: paulchakaka@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:05:00 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re=3A=20respond=20to=20your=20letter=2E?=



Dear Beloved,

Am Dr Paul Chakaka, in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance Department
of LEAD MERCHANT BANK PLC. I am writing you this letter to ask for your
support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.


We discovered an unclaimed sum of $35Million (Thirty five Million Dollars)
in an account belonging to one of our a foreign customer(HerveGarboudes)
who was an petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the Nigeria NationalPetroleum
coporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip.

He died with his wife (Christine Garboudes) on board the Swissair Flight
111 , which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998.
The plane crash was in the news.See links below for more detail informaion:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcripts/Since
we got information about his death we have been expecting his next of kin
to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately, neither the family nor
the relation has appeared to claim this money.

We cannot release this money unless somebody applies as the next of kin
or relation to the deceased. Our banking guidelines indicated that if such
money remained unclaimed for a period of eight (8) years, it would be transferred
into the MERCHANT BANK Treasury as unclaimed fund. Another officer and I
in the department now decided to transfer this money into your account as
the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy collection since nobody
is coming for it and we dont want this money to go back into the bank treasury
as the unclaimed debt.

Infact it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to
transfer out this money through another foreign beneficiary
outside the country. We have decided to give you 15% of the total sum. So
please, as a matter of urgency send to me your telephone and fax numbers
for effective communication. I will do my best to see that we conclude this
transaction successfully on time.

Please if you are interested send me an immediate mail so that I can explain
the details to you to understand everything about this business. write to
this email address: paulchakaka@myway.com


Waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards.
Dr Paul Chakaka
paulchakaka@myway.com











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