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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: "Evariste bougoum" <evaristebougoum@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:39:08 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT

From EVARISTE BOUGOUM

Good day, I can't imagine how you will feel receiving
a sudden business letter from a remote country in far
away BURKINA FASO and probably from some one you have
not closely related with. But all the same, I believe
we do not need to be of blood relatives before we can
establish Cordial/business relationship.

Having said this, I think it is very important at this
juncture to introduce myself to you and also disclose
to you, how I came in contact with your email
address/profile. My name is MR.EVARISTE BOUGOUM. I am the
district (Foreign operations) manager of BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) Group, BURKINA
FASO branch.

I got your email address/profile from the Internet. It
is my pleasure to solicit your assistance in a very
confidential business proposal. I am contacting you
because I do not want to transact the business with
anybody who is known to any staff of this bank or
anybody around here to avoid any possible blackmail or
leakage at the end of the transaction.

THE PROPOSAL: There is an account in this bank,
BANK OF AFRICA, which was opened in
1982 by one Mr. FARUCK AZEEM, an Egyptian National,
who worked with ECOWAS Department of Mining &
Natural Resources and since 1995 nobody has operated
on this account. I had a very careful study of the
account files through which I carried an extensive
investigation about the holder of the said account and
found out that Mr. FARUCK AZEEM, suddenly died in a
plane crash in 1995 thereby abandoning the account,
having been fictitious regards the information he
submitted to this bank at the time of opening the
account. The account at this moment has no beneficiary
since the name Mr.FARUCK AZEEM, filled, as his next of kin has
no contact information in the form he submitted to the
bank. I have secretly removed all the relevant files
to the account from the dormant section so that bank
auditors will not verify the abandoned money and refer
it to Federal Treasury via BURKINA FASO reserve bank'.
Credit balance of the said account is US$18m (Eighteen
million, United States Dollars) My Dear Friend, the
deal here is that the money in this account will be
approved and remitted to any foreigner who shows up as
next of kin to Mr. FARUCK provided such person has
correct information to the account. I have such needed
information and will hand it over to you as soon as we
commence the transaction. I will source all necessary
documents and forward them to you for direct
submission to the bank. With my position as the
foreign operations manager we will quietly remove this
money from the bank without hitches.

I don't have any problem in regularizing all
necessary documents and transferring the credit
balance of the said account to your nominated bank
account in overseas, but the problem is trust. I have
spent months in trying to get an overseas reliable
contact. It is worthy to note that people are
unreliable these days and even derive joy in telling
lies.

On this ground I request your unreserved but sincere
cooperation devoid of greed in carrying out this
transaction so that no one amongst both of us shall
defraud each other at the end. I am prepared to split
at 60%---40% for you, provided that mine (60%) will be
intact at the end. Please get back to me via email as
a matter of urgency. Awaits your cooperation.

Best regards,
MR.EVARISTE BOUGOUM

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