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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • richardgnassingbe40@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "richard gnassingbe" <richardgnassingbe2@narek.tv>
Reply-To: <richardgnassingbe40@yahoo.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:24:48 -0800
Subject: VERY URGENT

OCEANIC BANK NIGERIA PLC


I am richard gnassingbe of the bills and exchange at
the foreign remitance department of oceanic bank
nig.plc. I am offering this proposal to solicite your
support and cooperation to carry out this urgent
business transaction.

Precisely on the 22nd of october,2005.A very
prominent client of ours, the fisrt lady,Chief Mrs
Stella Obansanjo passed away while undergoing surgery
in Spain.Before her death,I personally managed several
accounts for her including those for her pet project
child care trust[C.C.T].During an internal
investigation conducted by her lawyer and myself we
discovered an abandoned sum of money,$28.565[twenty
eight million five hundred and sixty eight DOLLARS.

Since her demise, Nobody has approached the bank
to claim the money because she did not indicate anyone
as her next of kin and besides the details of the
acco unt are still been kept secret by myself and the
lawyer,who incidentally is the only signatory to the
account.

In line with this present scenario,I have
decided to contact you on behalf of the lawyer to
release the money to you for safe keeping.we have
agreed that you can have 30% of the money as a foreign
partner thereafter we will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentage indicated.

The law and guidelines of the banking industry
in Nigeria stipulates that any account with above
$1,000,000 that remains domicile for a period of four
months after the holder's death is subject to
investigation and verification by the Bank's internal
auditors,after which if no claim has been laid to
it,the money will be transferred to the bank's
treasury.Also as a result of the activities of the
regulatory Bodies involved, we cann ot claim the mo ney
unless it is transferred into a foreign account

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of
the money to you, the details of bank account
number,telephone no and other relevant informations
are needed urgently.The lawyer will take care of all
legal documents involved while i on my part will
ensure the speedy transfer of the funds to you.

Please your reply is urgently required as we have
less than four months before the internal auditors
begin their investigations. You can contact me through
the email address above
(richardgnassingbe40@yahoo.de)
Hope to hear from
you soonest.

Richard Gnassingbe.




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