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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: "gilbert hopper" <gilberthopper_02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrgilberthopper@myway.com
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:56:24 +0200
Subject: From:Mr.Gilbert Hopper,

From:Mr.Gilbert Hopper,
Box 1287 Port Shepstone
Chaka -South Africa
Email:mrgilberthopper@myway.com



RE: TRANSFER OF ($39,500.000.00
USD)
(THIRTY NINE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS)
Dear Sir,

We want to transfer to overseas ($$ 39,500.000.00 USD) Thirty nine million
Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa, I
want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will
be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a
new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve
to receive this funds quitely.

I am Mr.Gilbert Hopper,the accountant personal confidant to Dr. Ravindra
F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr.Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah in a
plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend wedding in Boston.

Mr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died
last year without having any
beneficiary to his assets including his account here in South Africa which
he opened in a prime bank in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the
purpose of expansion and developement of his companybefore his untimely
death in 2003.

The amount involved is (USD 39,500,000.00)Thirty Nine Million Five Hundred
Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am contacting you
for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to
first transfer $9,500.000.00 (nine million five hundred thousand USD) from
this money into a safe account abroad, after which we will transfer the
remaining (30M) but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as
a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here,
without valid international foreign
passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international
passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US
Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr.Ravindra F. Shah is a foreigner
too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.

However, I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never
let me down in this
business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for
this business, so please reply
urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also
your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the
account to be used for the deposit.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management
is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive
response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 50% of the total
amount, 50% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring. You call me on PHONE:+882-
162 -152-4141

I look forward to your earliest reply through my Email OR You call me:


Email:Email:mrgilberthopper@myway.com
Sincerely,
God Bless You.
Mr.Gilbert Hopper,

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