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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: "Scott Miller" <scot_mp3@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 05:48:22 +0200
Subject: CALL ME



Attn,

RE: TRANSFER OF US$168.559 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. Though, this
medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it
because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this
correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be treated as such.

At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and
trouble free to both parties.

My name is Mr Scott Miller, I work as the operational manager in account
management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of one of a prime
banks here in South Africa. On a routine inspection I discovered a
dormant domiciliary account with a Balance of US$168,559,000. 00 (One
hundred and sixty eight million five hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S
dollars only}. The account holder[The deceased] was believed to be incharge
of Former Iraq President, Saddam Hussein secret CRUDE OIL transactions in
Africa before his death. On further discreet investigation, I also
discovered that the account holder has died long ago with his family on a
fatal Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to the account and no other
person knows about this account.

I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner
and he is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy
foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c
is a foreigner. I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral WILL
attached to the account , no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the
claim of this money. It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with
legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you if you are
interested, therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction. This
money will remain useless in this dormant account if I did not transfer the
fund out to a foreign account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to
claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide
your safe bank account information for the transfer. All arrangement that
will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which you are to
nominate is already in place.You should provide me with your correct account
information for the transfer and your direct cell phone lines for easy
communication. I wish for utmost confidentiality in handling this
transaction.

At the conclussion of this transaction, your share will be 15% of the total
transfer sum, 80% for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any
expenses both parties might incure during the process of the transfer. The
fund will be transferred to your account in two parts. I will first transfer
USD 38 Million to your account as a test transfer. I will fly over to meet
you after the successful transfer for sharing according to the agreed
percentages. I will have the remaining balance of USD130,559 Million
transferred to your account only after the successful sharing of the first
transfer without any disappointment from your side.

Let me hear from you URGENTLY by Email me. You can also fax or call me for
more detail.

Best Regards,
Mr.Scott Miller.
Tel: + 8747 - 635 - 91425
Fax: + 8747 - 635 - 91426
E-mail:s2005m@myway.com or scmiller@zwallet.com

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