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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: "paul francis" <mr_paul5258@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 08:39:19 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL

BANQUIERS SANS FRONTIERES
Avenues des Nîmes Grunitzky,
PHONE
LOME -TOGO WEST AFRICA.

DEAR ,

I AM MR PAUL GODWIN, THE AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT, FOREIGN REMITTANCE
DEPT BANQUIERS SANS FRONTIERES I am writing following the impressive
information about your profile through the website your capability and
reliability to champion this opportunity. In my department, we discovered an
abandoned sum of (4.5 million US dollars).

In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along
with his entire family in APRIL,2000 in a ROAD ACCIDENT. Since we got this
information about his death, we have been expecting his next of Kin to come
over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in
our banking and financial policies but unfortunately we learnt that his
supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the accident
leaving no body behind to claim the money.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don t want this
money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills. The Banking law and
guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after long
period, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
fund.

The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indegine cannot stand as
next of kin to the deceased family. We agreed that 30% of this money will be
for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during this transaction
and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues. Thereafter I and my colleagues
will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages
indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the Bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your private, telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of
your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the application.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch
free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me
immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

I decided to contact you as you have products of interest in your part of
the world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness
as we are civil servants. We can conclude this operation within ten banking
days. Please keep this very confidential.

Contact me for more information, all confirmable before you apply if you
want.Trusting to hear from you shortly. Peace and love always. Alternative
email:paul6godwin@yahoo.com.

Best regards

PAUL GODWIN

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