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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.
  • janah@box.az

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Presston Janah." <p.janah@box.az> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:52:55 +0800
Subject: With Trust.

Mr.Presston Janah.
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia.
Email:p.janah@box.az

ATTN:Sir/Madam,

TRANSFER OF FIFTEEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED
STATES DOLLARS

I want to transfer ($15,300,000.00 USD)Fifteen Million Three Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars from a Bank here in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia to oversea account.First, I must solicit your strictest confidence
in this transaction.This is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential.
I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a
transaction of this great magnitude.I solicit your assistance to be presented
as the Next of Kin to a deceased customer in facilitating the transfer of the
said amount into your safe account for unward investment.You can either
provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account
immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive
this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this
important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me
down either now or in future.

I am the personal account officer to a great late INDUSTRIALIST who
operated an account in my Bank here in Malaysia. The account was opened
in 1998 and he died in the year 2000 without a written or oral WILL and since
then nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating
and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing since
our bank have been sold on Wednesday, 19 June 2005 to another bank and the
managementof the bank is now ready to release the fund to any foreigner who
has the correct information of the account before fully handing over the
management to the new bank.The owner of this account is a foreigner and no
other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account
has no other beneficiary. My investigation through the National immigration
department proved to me as well that he was single as at the point of his entry
into Malaysia.

The amount in this account is USD($15,300,000.00 USD)Fifteen Million Three
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only.As a matter of fact, I have decided
to transfer this fund abroad for investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is
necessary because the management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who
has correct information to this account which I will give you immediately, if you
are interested in this business.

There is no risk to this business. With my position and my personal contact
with the manager of the bank,the money can be transferred to any account you
can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our arrival in
your country for disbursement. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because
this money can not be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved
to any foreigner who has the correct information of the account which I will provide
to you.This is based on the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner.Upon
receipt of your response,on your interest in this transaction,I shall keep you abreast
on how this transaction will be executed.

At the conclussion of the transfer you will take 20% for your honest committment
and positive contributions to enhance that the transaction succeeds,and the remaining
80% for me which I intend to invest in any area you deem profitable. As soon as I hear
from you,and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me down once the fund
goes into your account I will then start to process the transfer of the fund to your account
without further delay.

Contact me urgently for further detail.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Presston Janah

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