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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Francis Zongo" <francisz10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: francisz@uku.co.uk
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:04:44 +0000
Subject: Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Dear Friend,

This letter may come to you as a surprise,However let me briefly Introduce
myself to you,I am Francis Zongo the head of Account and Audit Department of
Bank Of Africa,in Burkina Faso.
I just want to share a mutual Business relationship with you which will
benefit both of us at the end of it.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars(Ten
million, five hundred thousand US dollars)In an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer who died a long with his entire family in 16 Febuary
1998 in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death,we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can
not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him
at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this
money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
Unclaimed after six years,the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner,in
Respect to the provision of a foreign account,10 % will be set aside for
Expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my
colleagues.There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for
Disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

I will send to you by fax or email a text of the application you will use to
apply to the bank.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Francis Zongo.

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