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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: soatijani@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:24:19 +0200
Subject: (African Development Bank)

FROM:The Desk of Soa Tijani,
Bill And Exchange Manager,(A.D.B)
(African Development Bank)
Republic of Benin.
Phone: 00229 84 89 33
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVATE PLEASE.

Dear Friend,

Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received a worthy
information about your reliability and honesty. Hence I confide in you.

I am Alhaji Soa Tijani,from (African Development Bank),Republic of Benin.During
the course of our auditing we discovered the sum of Five million five hundred
thousand united states dollars (USD$5.500.000.00) floating in an account
opened in this Bank since 1997 and as from 2001 nobody has operated on this
account again, and after going through some old files in the records I discovered
that the owner of the account died without a [HEIR]sept 11th 2001 by plane
crash, hence the money is floating.

After due verification I noticed that no other person knows about this account
except his wife who was also invovled in the crash, and the account has
no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until
his death he was the Director GOLD ARK [SARL]Since our bank,(African Development
Bank)Benin Rep. got information about his death, we have been expecting
his next of kin to come forward and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but up to date nobody
came up to this bank as his next of kin or relative.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials
in my department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or elation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming forth and we don't
want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next
of kin as no one has come up as his relation. And the country law here does
not allow such money to stay more than Five years, for the money will be
recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed after this period.

Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you the application form,bank'scontact
and the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as
all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within fourteen banking
days, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased. It has
been resolved that 30% will be for you while 10% has been maped out to defray
any expences that might be incured during the process of the ransaction.
Then 60% will be for me which shall be release after the funds must have
been remitted into your bank account.
When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail signifying your decision.Including
your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication. I will be very happy
if you can treat this business with the utmost secrecy it demands because
of my position in this bank. For confidentiality reasons,kindly reply to
my private Email: soatijani@yahoo.com

Hoping for a very successful business relationship with you.
Best Regards,
ALHAJI Soa Tijani.
Phone: 00229 84 89 33(direct Line)
soatijani@yahoo.com


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