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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: "Daniel Obaseki" <danobaa@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: danobas1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:25:25 +0000
Subject: HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY?

Dear Friend,

I am DR. DANIEL OBASEKI, the Director of Bills and Exchange at the foreign
remittance department of the INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC. It is with utmost
trust and confidence that I make this urgent and important business
proposal to you. I want your assistance and co-operation in
carrying out this business opportunity in my department. I discovered an
abandoned sum of US$21,000,000.00 (Twenty one million United States Dollars
only) in a fixed deposit account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family On 4th of May 2002 in a
plane crash.

Since we got information about this death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release the money
unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relations to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

unfortunately, neither the family members nor the relations has appeared to
claim the money. upon this discovery, I and the assistance manager of my
department now decided to look for a foreigner we will use to transfer the
said amount who will also stand-as the next of kin or relation of the
deceased since a Nigerian can not stand as next of kin. we don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as an unclaimed bills as the banking law
and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remain unclaimed after 3
years the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as an unclaimed
fund.

To enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as indicated, you will
first apply to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank account number and location wherein the money will be
remitted. upon receipt of your reply , I will send to you by email the text
of the application. as soon as you receive this letter, please contact me
immediately to indicate your interest in this proposal via my email.

We are willing to offer to you upon negotiation an agreeable percentage of
the total sum. We are absolutely positive that this arrangement will be of
mutual benefit to us and think that your crave indulgence to treat this
proposal with utmost seriousness and trust.

Thanking you for your anticipated co-operation and please view details
bellow.

Yours faithfully,

Dr.Daniel Obaseki

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/05/05/nigeria.crash/

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