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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • j_wazi2000@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "JOHANAH WAZIRI" <hanawason@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:39:39 +0000
Subject: FROM JOHANAH WAZIRI

Dear Friend,
I am Johanah Waziri an accountant with union bank of
Nigeria plc.I am the custodian of the account of late
Mr Robert Chapman the Africa Area Director of SIL
international, who unfortunately died along with his
entire
family On August 23, 2000 through Gulf Air Flight 72 with Airbus A320
crashed off, killing all 143 people on board and you can view the site
for
more details:http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N32/gulfair.32w.html .Mr Chapman
hailed from Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
Since the death of Chapman.I as the custodian of his
account in my bank have made several enquiries to
locate his only surviving relation without any
success. I came across your name and contact on the
course of my personal searching for Chapmans
relation, so I decided to contact you for this
project.
I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and
securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit
account by Robert, before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by union bank of Nigeria plc
where Robert operates an account worth$USD9.5 Million
Dollars. The board of union bank of Nigeria plc has
issued a notice that two months from now and no next
of kin show up for the claiming of the said funds, the
funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable.
Since I and my colleagues have been unsuccessful in
locating Robert's relation for sometime now, it is on
this note that I seek your consent to present you as
the next of kin of the deceased since you are a
foreigner, so that the proceed of this deposit valued
at $USD9.5 Million Dollars can be released to you for
our disbursement.
I and my colleagues have agreed to negotiate the
sharing ratio with you at the reply of this mail.
All requires is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this business successful, so I want you to forward
in your reply: your full name/address/age/occupation
and also your telephone and fax numbers that I will
use to reach you.The information you are to send are
what I will use to procure all the legal documents in
your name to present you as the next of kin to Mr
Robert Chapman.I guarantee that this will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you
from any breach of the law.
Robert was a very good man and it is not wise for me
to allow his hard earned wealth to be confiscated by
the bank.
Further details await your response by email.

Regards
Johanah Waziri
j_wazi2000@yahoo.com

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