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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: "Garuba Usman" <garus02@afex-bankng.com>
Reply-To: garus2005@post.cz
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:41:58 +0000
Subject: Estate of Engr.R.Lange


Dear Lange,

I am a staff of AFRICAN EXPRESS BANKING CORPORATION,My name is Garuba
Usman,a Banker. I am the personal Account Manager to Engr.R.Lange, who was
formerly working with shell Development company in Nigeria hereinafter,
referred to as my clientele. On 30th JAN 2000, my clientele,his wife, and
their three children were involved in the Kenyan Airways(registration
number 5Y-BEN) air crash which departed from Nairobi to destination Lagos
and all the family died in this fatal air mishap on 30th JAN 2000.

Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of my clientele's
extended relatives, this proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name on the Internet,to
locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you
to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my
clientelethey get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank(AFRICAN
EXPRESS BANKING CORPORATION) where these huge deposits were lodged where the
deceased an account valued at about (20.5 Million U.S Dollars).
Recently, my Bank(AFRICAN EXPRESS BANKING CORPORATION) issued me a notice
to provide my clientele's next of kin or have the account confiscated the
shortest time frame.Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives

for years now,I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the
deceased since you have the same last name with him so that the proceeds of
this account valued at (20.5 Million U.S Dollars ) can be paid into your
account.As a matter of business, the sharing formular runs thus : 55% to me
and 40% to you and 5% set aside to offset expensesincurred by both parties.
An attorney will be contracted to help us to obtain all the necessary legal
documents that can be used to back up your claims.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal
through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law.

NOTE:Please reply with my alternative email address { garus2005@post.cz }

Best regards,

MR Garuba Usman.

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