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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: "DAGOGO JOHN." <dagogo_jnconsultant02@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dagogo_jnconsultant01@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:38:18 +0100
Subject: partinership

Sir,
I am MR DAGOGO JOHN, the chief accountant of ECO bank Cotonou P.L.C.I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.
An American Oil consultant and contractor with
the Shell devolopment Cotonou, Mr Martin Greenberg, made a numbered time(Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$8,000,000.00(Eight Million United States Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a Month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers,the shell development that Mr.Martin Greenberg, died in a plane crash along with his wife Mr and Mrs Martin Greenberg, in EgyptAir Flight 990,1999 air crash(for more information about this crash and person you can contact this website by clicking under:
http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-99/11-02-99/d08ho174.htm

Since we got this information about his death and on further investigation,I found out that he died
without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next to kin was fruitless.
I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr.Martin Greenberg, did not declare any Kin or Relations in all his official documents, including
his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$8,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of BENIN-COTONOU, at the expiration of 7 (seven) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the BENIN Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.
Consequently,my proposal is that I will like you as a Foreigner to stand in as the Next of Kin to Mr.Martin Greenberg, so that the fruits of this man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple,I will like you to provide immediately your full Names and Address for the application for payment.

A bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the Beneficiary/Next to Kin.
Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details
and relevant documents that will help you understand
the transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.
Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest
assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us and also riskfree.

Awaiting your urgent reply via my confidential EMAIL ACCOUNT (dagogo_jnconsultant01@yahoo.com)

Thanks,

DAGOGO JOHN.

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