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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: "Hassan Abdullah" <abdul_has@infohq.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:53:17 +0800
Subject: Good Day.

>From the desk of,
Mr.Abdullah Hassan.
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

Attn:Sir/Madam,

TRANSFER OF($US 18,500.000.00}EIGHTEEN MILLION FIVE HUNRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS.

Please be aware,that beacause of the urgency of this fund transfer,you are not
the only recipient of this deal proposition.

I want to transfer(US$18,500.000.00)Eighteen Million Five Hundred United States
Dollars,from a Bank here in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia,to an oversea account.Firstly,
I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue
of it's nature as being utterly confidential.I am sure and have confidence of
your ability and reliability to execute a transaction of this great magnitude.
I solicit your assistance to enable me transfer the said amount into your safe
account for onward investment.You can either provide me with an existing account
or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this fund,even an empty
a/c can serve to receive the fund,as long as you will remain honest to me till
the end of this important deal.Trusting in you and believing that you will never
let me down either now or after the fund has been transfered.

I am the personal account officer to a great late INDUSTRIALIST,An Egiptian,who
has an account in one of the top Banks here in Malaysia.The account was opened
in the year 2000 and he died in the year 2003 without a written or oral WILL and
since then nobody has operated on this account again.Hence,the money is floating
and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing
since the Bank has been sold on Wednesday,the 19th of March 2003 to another Bank
and the management of the Bank is now ready to be tranfered to the new Bank.If
nothing is done urgently the fund will be forever lost.The owner of this account
is an Egiptian and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning
it,the account has no other beneficiary.My investigation through the National
immigration department proved to me as well.that he was single as at the point of
his entry into Malaysia.

The amount in this account is US$18.5 Million(Eighteen Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars).As a matter of fact,I have decided to transfer this
fund abroad for investment.Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the
management of the Bank will welcome any foreigner who has the correct information
to this account,which I will give to you immediately,if you are interested in
transacting this business with me.

There is no risk in this deal.With my position and my personal contact with the
manager of the Bank,the fund can be transferred to any account you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact and you will not deal fraudulantly with me
upon the confirmation of it in your account.I will start the first transfer with ten
Million [US$10,000.000.00].Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from
your side,We shall re-apply for the claim of the remaining balance of $8.500,000.00
to your account.I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund can not be
approved to a local person here,but can only be approved to any foreigner who has the
correct information of the account,which I will provide to you.So you should provide
me with your correct account detail where you will like the fund to be transferred to
or you can set up a new account for the transfer even an empty account will be ok.

At the conclussion of the transfer you will take 50% for your honest committment and
positive contributions to enhancing,that the transaction succeeds,and the remaining
50% for me.As soon as I hear from you,and upon your strong assurance that you will
not let me down once the fund goes into your account,I will then start to process the
transfer of the fund to your account without further delay.

Please send your interest to my confidential email address:abdul_has@walla.com for
further detail.


Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Abdullah Hassan.
Email:abdul_has@walla.com

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