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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • ali_issa404@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "ali issa" <ali_issa1@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:04:04 +0000
Subject: Urgent Message.

>From The Desk Of Ali Issa (Esq).
The Head Of File Department,
African Development Bank A.D.B
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
West Africa.
Phone: 00226-7886 45 83.

PLANE CRASH WEB SITE...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

("REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS
CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")

Compliment Of The Season,
On a very good day. I am (Ali Issa ),The Head of file Department in African
developent bank (ADB).I got your contact from Yahoo tourist search. When i
was searching for a foreign partner i assured of your capability and
reliability to champion this businees opportunity when i prayed to God or
Allah about you.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 15
million U.S.A dollars ( fifteen million U.S.A dollars) . In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in (Monday 31st July 2000) in a plane crash. Since we got information about
his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his
money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of
kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my department
now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to
you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to
go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner, and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of
this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision
of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the
business and 60 % would be for me and my woman colleague. There after i will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the
money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax
or email the text of the application I will not fail to bring to your notice
that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any
atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
You should contact me on my number 00226-7886 45 83, immediately as soon as
you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.
PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS:ali_issa404@yahoo.com
Your’s faithfully,
Ali Issa (Esq.)
POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to
move very smoothly in to the account you will prove to the bank.As you
finished reading this letter call me immediately so that we discuss very
well over this business.

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