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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: "Philip Adama" <admphilip10@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:54:50 +0000
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE

STALLION TRUST BANK Plc.
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS NIGERIA
E-MAIL:adm_philip10@hotmail.ro


Dear friend,

I am Mr.Philip Adama, senior manager accounts/audit department, in Stallion
Trust Bank Plc. DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, who was a contractor with
Shell-development Company in Nigeria and a personal friend Died and left
behind his deposit in this bank (STALLION TRUST BANK PLC) valued USD 25.5m

I am writing to seek your cooperation over this business deal. In my
department, I discovered an abandoned sum of USD 25.5m (Twenty - Five
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) only , in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died
along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya, East
Africa, the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, a citizen of Atlanta, United States of
America but resident here in Nigeria, West Africa and a physician.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be
released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately,
all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the
plane crash leaving nobody behind to claim the money.

therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you via your foreign bank
account as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and this money
Could go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transferred into
the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for your assistance
and maximum co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a
foreigner.40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account. and 60 % would be for me.
There after I will come over to 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 the relation or next of
kin to the deceased, indicating your claims and where the money will be
remitted into.

Upon receipt of your respose indicating your willingness to work with
me, I will send to you by fax or email the contact information of my
bank manager which you will use to submit the application and I will
direct you on how to do that. I will not fail to bring to your notice
that this transaction is strictly confidential and I will use my position in
this Bank to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund and that is to say I
guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me through my email: adm_philip10@hotmail.ro
and send to me your full name telephone and fax numbers to enable us
discuss further about this transaction.


You can visit the website below for more information about the Plane
Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late
DR GEORGE BRUMLEY.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Awaiting your urgent reply

Thanks and my regards.

Mr.Philip Adama


N/B. Please reply through my alternative email address
adm_philip10@hotmail.ro

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