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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: "Clinton Ego" <clintonego125@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:49:14 -0800
Subject: INDICATE YOUR INTEREST

Dearest:Friend,

My Name is MR.CLINTON EGO a credit officer with the one
of the leading (Finance Trust House) here in
Cotonou capital of Benin Republic . In my department I discovered an
abandoned funds (USD$ 13.5 Million dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who
died along with his entire family in July 2001 in a plane crash. Check on
the website below for the incidence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless some body applies as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking laws but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation
died alongside with him on the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I 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 bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after Six years, the money will be transfered into
the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as the next
of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact
that the customer was a foreigner and an Indigene cannot stand as next
of kin to a foreigner.Your percentage will be declare to you as
soon as you indicate your interest. I will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentage indicated .

Therefore, to enable the immediate move of this fund
to you as arranged,you must apply first to the bank as the relation
or next of kin of the deceased indicating

1.Your full name and address
2.Your telephone for easy communication.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application which you will copy and send to Remittance department of our
Bank so that we will commence the processing of the fund in your favour.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free,
you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have
been made for the movement of the money.You should reply me immediately as
soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours Faithfully,


Mr.CLINTON EGO

Please contact me on this private email ( clintonego@mail.com or
clintonego123@yahoo.com )

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