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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: "Bruno Johnson" <dr_bjohnson42@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dr_bjohnson42@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:36:31 +0200
Subject: Confidential

220 Balham High Road
Central London W17 7BQ
United Kingdom.
Phone.+44-7236740312

ATTENTION,

I am Dr Bruno Johnson,an Auditor of a London bank.
During the course of our auditing,I discovered
a floating fund of(£18.5M.)Eighteen Million
Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds in an
account opened in the bank in 1999 and since
2000 nobody has operated on this account.
After a lot of investigation I discovered that
the owner of the account died without a beneficiary.
The money is floating and if I do not remit this
money out it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of the account is a foreigner.He died
since 2000 and the account has no other beneficiary.
My investigation proved to me that nobody knows about
this account or anything concerning it.So I want to
grab this opportunity, as it is no harm to nobody to
transfer the money out.

I need your assistance as a foreigner because the
money cannot be approved to anybody here. The
management must approve this payment to you if you
have the correctinformation of this account, which
I will give to you,upon your positive response and
once I am convinced that you are capable and will
meet up with instruction of key bank official who
is deeply involved with me in this project.
With our influence,we can transfer the money to any
foreigner’s reliable account, which you can provide
with assurance that this money will be intact
pending our physical arrival at your end for sharing.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be give
20% of the total amount, 75% will be for the bank
official and I, while 5% will be for expenses both
parties might have incurred during the course of
this transaction.

Regards.
Dr Bruno Johnson.

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