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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: anita smith <anitasmith_1@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: anitasmithprivate2009@london.net
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:35:49 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: I NEED A RELIABLE AND HONEST PERSON....................


From: Mrs Anita Smith.

Greetings from Holland,


Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners.


I am Mrs Anita Smith from Holland. I am married to Mr Clement Smith,who was the former Branch chairman of the petroleum oil company in Kuwait for Twelve years, who perished in the plane crash of 18TH JULY 2003 in KENYAN PLANE CRASH with the whole passengers abroad.

View the website of the inclient of the crash:

(www.sptimes.com/2003/07/21/Worldandnation/12_Americans_die_in_K.shtml)

And before my late husband died he deposited (USD25M) TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS, THE LATINS SECURITY COMPANY LONDON FOR A SAFE KEEPING.

Presently, this money is still in Security company and i decided to seek for whom his Name shall be used as the next of kin and the security company ethics does not allow such money to stay more than six years in their custody, because after five years the money will be called back to their strong room.

In the View of this,I got your contact through my former secretary and i was convinced in my mind that your Name could be used as the next of kin and we were married for eleven years without a child and Since his death i decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home. I am presently in the hospital where I have been undergoing treatment Cancer of the lungs in the hospital here in kenya, I have since lost my ability To talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to Live.

I agreed that 30% Of this money will be for you,while 10% will take of any expenses that might be incured in the process of succeeding the transfer.
Thereafter i will visit your country for disbursement and this business is absolutely risk-free, i am constrained to trust you believing that you will understand the exigency of the situation and the magnitude of the fund involved.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the security company where the fund is deposited for claim and also issue you an authority letter that will prove you the present beneficiary of this fund.

Thanks in anticipation of your immediate response.


Mrs Anita Smith.




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