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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: "sani ali" <saniali108@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:38:53 +0000
Subject: confirm receitp please.

>From The Desk of Mr Sani Ali.
Audits & Accounts Dept
Bank of Africa
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
Phone: +226 76 65 19 16

PLS REPLY:( drsaniali2000@yahoo.com )

Dear Friend,

I am Mr Sani Ali, a banker with the above mentioned bank in Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso in West Africa, holding the post of the Audit & Accounts
dept,. On Monday, 31 July, 2000, one Andreas Schranner, a German National,
An Astute Business man of international repute, a contract with Ecowas
country, whose endeavours spans various areas of Business interest, (Real
estate, contract and Farming .etc) made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit,
valued at $10,700,000.00 (Ten Million, seven Hundred thousand United States
Dollars) for twelve calendar months in my Bank Branch.

Upon Maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but
got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered
from his company that Mr. Andreas Schranner was aboard the AF4590 plane,
which crashed Monday, 31 July 2000 into the Hotelissimo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

After further investigation, it was discovered that he died without making
a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin proved fruitless.

On further investigation, it was discovered that Late Mr. Andreas Schranner
did not declare any next of kin or relatives in all his official documents,
including his Bank Deposit paper work here in our Bank. The total sum,
$10,700,000.00 is still in my bank and the interest is being rolled over
with the principal sum at the end of each year. All efforts to trace and
locate his next of kin proved abortive.

In accordance with the country’s banking laws and constitution guiding
this banking institution stated that after the expiration of (5)five
years, if no body or person comes for the claim as the next of kin , such
money will be revert to the Burkina Faso government treasury if nobody
applies as the next of Kin to claim of the fund. Consequently, It is upon
this respect, I seek to present you as a foreign partner to stand in as the
next of kin to the late Mr. Andreas Schranner since no one will come up for
the claim.

Upon acceptance of this proposal, I shall send to you by mail the ASB Bank
"Next of Kin Payment Application Text Form" as well as detailed information
on how this deal would be carried out.

The money will be shared in the ratio: Sixty percent for me, thirty percent
for you and ten percent for any arising contingencies during the Course of
this transaction. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, as I will use
my position in the Bank's here to perfect this business transaction &
secure Approvals and guarantee the successful execution of this
transaction.

Please be informed that your utmost confidentiality is required. If this
interests you, I want to remind you of the confidentiality of this
Transaction at hand whatever your decision is.

I await your urgent response. Your detailed reply should contain your
telephone and fax numbers with your full name for easier communication for
onward proceeding.Please bear in mind this is risk free business
transaction

For prompt respond please kindly reply via my alternative E-mail I.D as
follow:

PLS REPLY:( drsaniali2000@yahoo.com )

Thanks.
Mr. Sani Ali
Audits & Accounts Manger
Phone: +226 76 65 19 16

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