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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: "james keita" <jameskeita2@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:18:13 +0000
Subject: DONTATIONS OF MY FUND TO CHARITABLE HOMES AND CHURCHES

Dear Tom,

Thanks immensely for your reply. I want to thank you once again for your
willingness and acceptance to assist me in the distribution of this fund to
charitable organisations. Above all , my thanks for goes to God for
answering my prayer in helping me locate a born again christian as I
desired.well am sure that am sending it to the right person because i have
prayed and fasted before sending it to you.

Why, I first desired to distribute this fund via the help of devoted
christian does not mean that charity group from other religious faith will
not benefit from the fund but I want the fund distribution to be manned by a
person of the same faith with me. thank you so much for the informations
that you gave to me that goes further to assure me that you are willing to
assist me.

However i have to contact you in an aim to achivee my my goal of assisting
in one way or the other to humanity. i lost my only chilld to september11
attack on world trade centre and since then i have been sufering from heart
failures to an extent that i am now paralysed.Now due to my inactiveness the
money i deposited in a secuirity company at europe for the inheritance of my
son after graduation is there in the secuirity company with no other person
to inherit it. so, i decided to donate this money to september 11 victims or
foundation or other humanitarian agent as my own contribuition to humanity.

Finally if your are intrested in helping me please forward the following
informations for identification purposes.

i). A scan picture of yourself (your driver's license or identifing pages of
your international passport).

2)Your full name and address

3)Your telephone and fax numbers


When all this requirement is in my possession, I will then release the
security deposit documents, which I used in depositing the fund in the
security firm in europe for your verification/perusal and i will also snd
you my picture as you requested when i get it scanned.

Then another process will be to secure a document here from the Justice
department called the "Letter Of Administration" which will empower you with
the right of visiting security office in europe or directing them how you
want the deposit to be release to you. Acquision of this document is the
sole responsibility of a top accreditted lawyer. You can even hire a lawyer
from your country to visit here in order to obtain the document on your
behalf incase you have no trust with an African lawyer but will be more
expensive because of his or her travel expenses(flight ticket).

I personally have no trust in Africa people but may the attention of my
doctor to help secure a reliable one to assist. This arrangement must be
handled as urgent as possible because if I die suddenly the fund in the
security company will be lost to the uncaring hands of the management of the
security company in Switzerland.

Above all, your identification is mostly needed for such acquision of the
letter of administration, which when obtained and presented to the security
office along with the deposit documents either by you, the deposit
containing the fund will be released to you without any delay.

I will stop till I hear from you for further details.
Note that am now paralysed without any movement.

Hope this will merit your understanding while waiting to hear from you.

Thanks,
James Keita.

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