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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: "Jude Ato" <judeato@plasa.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:17:58 +0100
Subject: DONT DELETE, THIS MIGHT INTEREST YOU.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTS UNIT
ECO BANK OF TOGO
ECO BANK HOUSE,LOME TOGO.


Dear

I am Mr. Jude Ato, a staff of bills and exchange at the foreign

remittance Department, of Eco Bank Of Togo plc. I am writing following

the impressive information about you from our chambers of commerce and

industry.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned the sum of (US$ 12.5m)

TWELVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS only, in an

account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with

his entire family in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his

next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release

it unless somebody applies as a next of kin or relation to the deceased

as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately we learn that his supposed next of kin or relations died

along with him at the crash leaving nobody behind! for the claim. It is

therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in the

department now decided to make business with you, that is, to release

the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the decease since

nobody is fronting for the money and we do not want this fund to go into

disbursement account as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidelines

here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after two years

the money will be transferred into federal government account as

unclaimed fund.

The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is

occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an

indigene can not stand as a next of kin to a foreigner. We agreed that

30% of this money will be for you as the foreign partner and 10% for

expenses incurred during the cost of remittance. Therefore to enable

immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged, you should contact me

with my private e-mail adress immediately for further briefing:

I look forward to hearing from you soon.Include your phone and fax

numbers when repling

Mr. Jude Ato
Best regards.
Foreign Remittance

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