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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: "frank mark" <dr_frankmark00@merchantbankplc.org>
Reply-To: frankmark00@mail.com
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:00:29 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT.





Goodday,

I Am Dr. Frank Mark, in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance
Department of LEAD MERCHANT BANK PLC. I am writing you this letter to
ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business
opportunity in my department.

We discovered an unclaimed sum of $35Million (Thirty five Million
Dollars) in an account belonging to one of our foreign customer (Hammond
Joan)of 65, Edmonds, Washington USA, who was a petroleum/gas
consultant/contactor with the Nigeria National
Petroleum coporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip.

He died on board with the Swissair Flight 111 , which crashed into the
Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998. The plane crash was in
the news.See links below for more detail informaion:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcript
s/

Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately, neither the
family nor the relation has appeared to claim this money.We cannot
release this money unless somebody applies as the next of kin or relation to
the deceased. Our banking guidelines indicated that if such money
remained unclaimed for a period of eight (8) years, it would be transferred
into the MERCHANT BANK Treasury as unclaimed
fund. Another officer and I in the department now decided to transfer
this money into your account as the next of kin or relation of the
deceased for easy collection since nobody is coming for it and we dont want
this money to go back into the bank treasury as the unclaimed debt.

Infact it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer
out this money through another foreign beneficiary outside the country.
We have decided to give you 30% of the total sum. So please, as a
matter of urgency send to me,

1.Your Contact address:
2.Contact Telephone & fax Numbers:
3.Your age
4.Your ocupation
5.Marital status

for effective communication. I will do my best to see that we conclude
this transaction successfully on time.
Please if you are interested send me an immediate mail so that I can
explain the details to you to understand everything about this business.
write to this email address;frankmark00@mail.com

Waiting for your urgent response.
Best Regards.
Dr.Frank Mark



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