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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: "Henry Okoye" <henryokoye3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: henokoye@box.az
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:13:10 +0000
Subject: Re:SCADSA

Good Day,

First, I must solicit your STRICT confidence in this Proposition, this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly, CONFIDENTIAL. I have decided to
contact you after serious considerantion to participate in a
business transaction the value of USD35 M. My name is Mr.Henry Okoye. I work
with one of the leading private and offshore banks in the Nigeria.

The Proposition: On January 6, 1999, an American oil consultant/contractor,
MR. MORRIS THOMPSON, made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for 24 calendar
months value US$35M in my bank. On maturity, we sent a routine notification
to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a
reminder but unfortunately we found out that he was amongst the
victims of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31
2000,including his wife and only daughter.

You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site which I got
during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html


Right now, my bank is at the edge of declaring the funds UNCLAIMABLE since
nobody has come forward to claim the deposited money with my bank. MR.
MORRIS THOMPSON,unfortunately did not leave a beneficiary's
name with my bank nor did he leave the name of his next of kin. It is
inlight of this that I have decided to contact you to stand in as the
beneficiary of the deposited funds by the late MR MORRIS THOMPSON.Since I
work in the bank, and in my capacity, I will make you the beneficiary of the
said funds.

There are two options open to successfully make you the beneficiary of the
deposited money. I have thought about these options very well and found out
they are fool proof. Moreso, I have all related documents and information
about the deposit. I will provide you these options and documents upon your
reply. Kindly respond with your private phone and fax numbers. I will await
your response.

On Conclusion, you will be given 40% of the money and the remaining 60% for
me.

Kind regards,
Mr.Henry Okoye.

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