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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: alfred mensah <alfredmensah11@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:15:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GET BACK TO ME NOW FRIEND



BANQUIERS SANS FRONTIERES
Avenues des Nîmes Grunitzky,
Telex: 7282 TD BP 265
LOME -TOGO WEST AFRICA.
PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS alfredmensah@zwallet.com

DEAR FRIEND.
I AM MR alfred mensah 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.


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.

Best regards

alfred mensah.

CALL ME NOW ON THIS NOMBER + 228 905 88 74.















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