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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 reed" <john_benson_566@msn.com>
Reply-To: jamesreed55@mail.nu
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:59:55 +0000
Subject: PROJECT

Dear Friend,
The purpose of this letter is to briefly introduce
myself and I would like to intimate you with certain
facts that I believe would be of interest to you.My
name is Mr Reed James,I work in executive capacity
with CARGO HANDLING & SECURITY TRUST COMPANY in London
(UK) I joined the services of this company in 1985. I
decided to contact you believing that you will become
my overseas Business assocaites in acquiring an
investment placed under our management more than seven
(7) years ago.

I have worked with this company for over 20 years,
within this period of time I watched with meticulous
precision on how Head of State and government
functionaries have been moving huge sums of money
with the aid of their foreign partners abroad. They
bring in these consignment and declare the content
as jewelries, Gold, Precious Stones, Family Treasure,
Documents,etc.These people have at one time or the
other deposited consignments with us and their foreign
partners, relatives and Next of Kin are Claiming most
of these consignment and a lot more are laying here
unclaimed for as much as 7 years, as no available
information to anybody except the depositors, and most
of them
are dead. Since the inception of the year 2004,the
Management changed the procedure of claiming of
consignments.As soon as you are able to produce all
the information as contained in the secret file of the
company as regard the consignment, it will be released
to you upon demand. From our records, more than 10
consignments belonging to these people has been
claimed in the
past six months and this is why I am seeking for your
co-operation and assistance to help execute
this pending deal which has been unclaimed for so long
as I know no one will ever come forward to
claim it because the deceased left no next of kin.The
amount in question is very small compared to
what my office has sent overseas for this people. I
will provide all the documents needed for this
purpose as I was the account officer who handled most
this transaction on behalf of this client.

For the release of the consignment, the company will
invite you for the collection, or you may insist that
the consignment be delivered to you instead.

I hope to hear from you to enable me provide you with
the complete picture of this deal.
Funish me with the following
Full Names/Mailing address/Telephone and fax numbers.
Expecting yor urgent Response.
Mr Reed James.

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