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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: "Arthurmac Mukobo" <arthurmacmukobo_01@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:29:29 -0500
Subject: DIRECTOR, BILLS AND EXCHANGE

DIRECTOR, BILLS AND EXCHANGE,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
ABSA BANK.
SOUTH AFRICA.
Phone:+27 84 414 3076

Please write me via my private alternative Email:
(arthurmacm_mukobo@yahoo.com)


I am MR.Arthur Mukobo, The Director of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department of ABSA Bank Limited South Africa.

I am contacting you through this medium based on a business proposal, which
will be of mutual benefit to both of us. However be Informed that I
discovered your address through your country's Directory, Here in South
Africa when I was searching for a foreign business partner whom I will trust
and transfer this fund into his personal or company’s account, that is why I
contacting you, during a usual Bank Auditing, we discovered an abandoned sum
of US$ 15,000 000,00 (FIFTEEN MILLION US DOLLARS ) in an account that
belong to one of our foreign customers MR ANDREAS GREG
who died along with his entire family on November 1999 in a ghastly car
accident.

Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money, because we can not release it
unless some body apply for it as next of KIN or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money. It is based on
this that some officials in my department and I have decided to establish a
cordial business relationship with you, hence by contacting you. If you
indicate interest in this affairs, our Attorney shall prepare some
documents, which we shall Send to you and your name shall be incorporated as
a Beneficiary of this fund (NEXT OF KIN OF MR ANDREAS GREG) The information
shall be backdated and put in MR ANDREAS GREG'S FILE.

As soon as, I get your response to this massage, I will send you the bank
transfer form from which you will fill and fax it back to us to enable us
submit it to the bank for transfer approval. I will also consult a lawyer
who will represent you in all legal procedures and sign the necessary
documents before the transfer will commenced. Then again, we do not want
the money to go into the Government account as unclaimed bill. The banking
law and guidelines here stipulates that any account Abandoned or dormant for
a period of years is deemed Closed and all money contained therein would be
Forfeited to the Government treasury account.

Now it is being speculated that the above sum will be Transferred into the
government account as an Unclaimed fund on or before march 2006. The mode
of sharing after the transfer of the money into your nominated account will
be:70% for me And my colleagues and 25% will be given to you for the Role
you will be expected to play in the whole Exercise, and 5% will be mapped
out for expenses both of us will incure in this transfer if this proposal
matches with your inward
intension for success and greatness, then you are urged to make a quick
response indicating your
readiness and Interest to participate in the business.


I expect your Urgent response through this e-mail address or phone and fax
or please send me your private telephone and fax numbers to enable us
Conclude this transaction soon enough. Please treat
this business proposal as strictly Confidential for our mutual long-term
benefit.


Please it is important that you get back to me at my alternative Email:
(arthurmacm_mukobo@yahoo.com)

Hoping to hear from you Soon.

Best Regards

MR.Arthur Mukobo

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