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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. James Ofori" <jamesofori10008@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jamesofori700@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:47:34 +0000
Subject: From Mr. James, Should you Be Interested" Reply Back

Dear Friend,


I am Mr.James Ofori, credit officer of the International Commercial
Bank Ghana. I have a concealed business suggestion for you.Before the
death of the NIGERIA FIRST LADY Chief Mrs Stella Obasanjo. She was our client
who made a numbered fixed deposit for two years in International
Commercial Bank Ghana, with a value of (US$25.55M) Twenty-Five million, Five
Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars. Upon maturity several
notice was sent to her, even before her death,and we got no response from her. I
later find out that she kept these funds outside NIGERIA for personal
keeps for the future which is a common thing amongst NIGERIA LEADERS
of the past.

After further investigation it was also discovered that the late
NIGERIA FIRST LADY,Chief Mrs Stella Obasanjo did not declare any next of kin
in her official papers including the paper work of her bank deposit. She
also confided in me the last time she was at my office that no one outside
my bank staff, i mean apart from those you had the opportunity to know
about her deposit in my bank, knew of her funds deposit. So, Twenty-Five
million, Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars is
still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it.


Please,verify this claim with the link below:
http://news.bbc.couk/2/hi/africa/4368806.stm

What bothers me most is that, according to the laws of my country at
a short time from now, the funds will revert to the ownership of the
REPUBLIC OF GHANA GOVERNMENT if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a
foreigner to stand as the next of kin to THE NIGERIA FIRST LADY, CHIEF MRS
STELLA OBASANJO so that you will be able to receive these funds.I have
everything it takes to put this opportunity to life, if you oblige to my
business proposition.

I wait your timely response.


Respectfully,
James Ofori.



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