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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: "John Bond" <admin_jbond@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:33:29 +0000
Subject: From John Bond

Sir John Bond
Head Investigation Department,
HSBC Bank Plc.
London, SW17 0SP
England.
Private E-mail: jbond@financesource.com

Dear Friend,

SUBJECT: BENEFICIARY SUM OF 30 MILLION POUNDS STERLING GB.

I am seeking for your co-operation to present you to my bank as the next of

kin/will beneficiary to Mrs. Sigrid Fassnacht, a foreign contractor from

Cologne, Germany who died on a plane crash on July 25th 2000 with her

husband Rudi Fassnacht. Her husband and their two children also perished in

the air France Concorde New York bound flight; please click here for

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

Before her death she was a contractor to British National Petroleum

Co-operation (BNPC) and has a bank balance with my bank to the tune of (30

million pounds sterling GB) which will be paid to you as her next of
kin/will

beneficiary. For your information, I am the Head of Investigation Department

with HSBC Bank Plc London.

The board of directors of HSBC Bank Plc which I am also a member, mandated

me to look for any known relation of Mrs.Sigrid Fassnacht, since after her

death. However, all my efforts traces abortive, that is the main reason I am

writing you this to ask for your co-operation for us to claim this money

because it will amount to injustice if I do not take this decisive step to
secure

this deposit and invest it, because if nobody comes forward to claim the
fund

it will be forfeited to the government, based on that I have contacted you
to

assist me in making this transaction a reality.

I only have to approve you as the next of kin/will beneficiary and the fund
will

be paid to you as the beneficiary. We are to share this money between

ourselves and also donate 10% to charity and the tsunami victims if you are

really interested in this offer you should contact me through this email

address: jbond@financesource.com

For detail of this transaction and procedures, please do forward me your

full name,address,phone number,your company name or occupation

these info are vital to the success of this transaction.

Note that this transaction is risk free. I will commence immediately to
secure

all legal documents in your favor on your acceptance to fully co-operate
with

me.

I await your urgent response to enable us jumpstart this project and nurture
it

to reality.

Yours faithfully,
Sir John Bond
Head of Investigation
HSBC Bank Plc.

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