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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: "Mr.Mark Tucker" <marktucker002@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:28:55 +0100
Subject: CAN YOU BE TRUSTED?

From the desk of:
Mr.Mark Tucker
Auditor General of
Natwest Bank Group
UK.

Dear ,

I am Mr.Mark Tucker Auditor General of Natwest Bank Group
UK. Natwest Bank London. I am writing following an
oppurtunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to
both of us.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
£20.5million British Pounds Sterling (Twenty million five
hundred
thousand British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign
customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who
unfortunately lost his
life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which
crashed on
January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You
shall read
more about the crash on visiting this site.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his
next of kin or relatves to come over 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.

Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being
his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash
leaving nobody
with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is
therefore
upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this
department
now decided to make business with you and release the money
to you as the
next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping
and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
don't want this
money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such
money remained after six years the money will be transferred
into
banking treasury as unclaimed funds.

We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner,while the balance will be for me and my colleagues.
I will visit your
country for the disbursement according to the percentages
indicated above
once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to
me and trust
is our watchword in this transaction.

Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon
as you receive this mail you should contact me by return
mail.Please
note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release
of these funds
to you has been finalised. We will discuss much in details
when I do
receive your response.

Please if you are interested in this project contact me for
further
directives.



Best regards
Mr.Mark Tucker

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