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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: "CHRISTIAN ANSAH" <christianansah14@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: christianansah@katamail.com
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:39:13 +0000
Subject: Hello

FROM MR. CHRISTIAN ANSAH
TEL: +233 208282006

Greetings to you,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must come to you
as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and
become great friends and business partners. My name is Mr. CHRISTIAN ANSAH,
the present branch Manager of a bank here in Ghana. I write you this
proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information
I am about to reveal to you. Like I said, I have a transaction that will
benefit both of us, as your assistance is required as a foreigner.

I use to head the Accounts department in my bank head office, but last
December I was asked to take position of a Manager of our branch in Kumasi
who passed on, so that was how I became the present Manager and discovered a
fortune. As I resumed duty, I discovered an account with total sum of
$12,500,000 million that has not been operated on for the past 5 years.
From my investigation,I found out that this account belongs to one Late Mr.
Morris Thompson an American great industrialist and a resident of Alaska,
who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight
261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site which I got
during my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

The account is escrow call account, a secret type of account in my bank and
no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary. I have kept a close monitoring of the
account since then and nobody has come forward to ask about the money as
next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson, meaning that no one is aware of
the account. I cannot directly take out this money without the help of a
foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance to claim the
funds and share it with me. As the Manager of my bank branch, I have the
power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up
as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information concerning
the account, which I shall give you.

I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin to the
account,so that my bank head quarters will release the funds to yous.
There is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.
If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share
the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. Contact
me as soon as you receive this message if you feel we can work together,so
we can go over the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.

Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I wait your urgent response. You
can as well contact me by my phone number +233208282006.

Regards,

Mr. Christian Ansah.

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