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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: "James spencer" <jcspencer2002@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:36:51 +0000
Subject: TRANSFER OF US$168.559 MILLION

Attn,

RE:TRANSFER OF US$168.559 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT
ONLY.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business.Though,this
medium (Internet) has been reatly abused,I choose to each you through it
because it still remains the fastest medium of communication.However,this
correspondence is unofficial and private and it should be treated as such.

At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and
trouble free to both parties.

My name is Dr James Spencer,I work as the operational manager in account
management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of First National
Banks in South Africa.On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant
domiciliary account with a Balance of US$168,559,000.00(One hundred and
sixty eight million five hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S dollars
only}The account holder[The deceased]was believed to be incharge of the
Former Iraqi President,Saddam Hussein secret CRUDE OIL transactions in
Africa before his death.On further discreet investigation,I also discovered
that the account holder has died long ago with his family on a fatal
Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to the account and no other person
knows about this account.

I am in close contact with the manager the bank here who is my partner and
he is willing to approve the ransfer to any reliable and trustworthy
foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c
is a foreigner.I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral WILL
attached to the account,no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the
claim of this money.It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with
legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you if you are
interested,therefore I need your co-operation in this transaction.This money
will remain useless in this dormant account if I did not transfer the fund
out to a foreign account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to
claim this money.I only need your co-operation as a foreigner to provide
your safe bank account information for the
transfer.All arrangement that will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to
the account which you are to nominate is already in place.You should provide
me with your correct account information for the transfer and your direct
telephone number for easy communication.I wish for utmost confidentiality in
handling this transaction.

At the conclussion of this transaction,your share will be 30% of the total
transfer sum,60% for me and my partner while 10% will be set aside for any
expenses both parties might incure during the process of the transfer.The
fund will be transferred to your account in two parts.I will first transfer
USD 38 Million to your account first and after the transfer is successfully
done i will fly over to meet you in person for sharing according to the
agreed percentages.I will have the remaining balance of USD130,559 Million
transferred to your account only after the successful sharing of the first
transfer without any disappointment from your side.

Let me hear from you urgently by Email: jcspencer2002@hotmail.com or Tell:
+27-83-747-9999.

Best Regards,
Dr James Spencer.

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