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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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  • wilfort678@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: wilfort clapton <wilfort678@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:48:53 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT MONEY TRANSFER,REPLY URGENTLY





Attn:
This was real,hurrible,devastating and beneficiary to me.It happened on sunday august 28th,2005 in New Orleans the United States.This was hurricane katrina were several persons lost their lifes including my entire farmily members.Over thounsands of people were rendered homeless.I and my farmily were living in the south coast area of New Orleans before the hurricane katrina disaster struck the entire area rendering several persons homeless including my self, for three days before the intervention of more than twenty thousand America rescue teams came to my rescue and i was taken to were shelter was.
I screamed,cried and saw it coming and striking my farmily.My sisters Jenny and Stephany died on that day.But i thank God almighty for saving me.I now felt that America is not condusive for me now, so i left for The United Kingdom where i now resides.Some few weeks before i left America for London, i discovered that my father has lots of personal assets in London .It was revealed to me by my fathers private lawyer in America.These assets were an apartment in London, and $2.4million American dollars in an American bank.
My fathers lawyer told me my father declared me as his next of kin and the original owner of all these assets before he died.Now the hurricane katrina turned out to be a very big blessing to me {though i lost my entire family members}today.My plans now is to transfer this $2.4million dollars into an account outside America so that i can get hold of this money now.I am still hoping to sell the apartment in London.I will be very happy and glad if you can assist me in transfering the money into your personal account now,in which twenty five percentage(25%) will be given to you immediately after transfering the money into your account.An agreement between us and our lawyers will be reached on this particular deal.If willing and interested to assist me in transfering this money into your own account,then please send an email to;wilfort678@yahoo.com for more clearifications.Thanks for your assistance and understanding.

Best regards
Wilfort Clapton





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