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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: "Kofi Anyin" <kofianyin13@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: lcs_ghana@myway.com
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:21:00 -0400
Subject: The Peek

My Good Friend,
Due to your honesty, I am convinced that you would be capable to provide me
with a solution. I am Mr.Kofi Anyin of KA Legal Consultancy Services, Accra
Ghana. I am writing on behalf of my late client Mrs. Andréa Eich, a British
Citizen, a successful businesswoman base in Accra Ghana who died
unfortunately with her family (Her Husband and two kids) in an air mishap in
July 2000.

I am contacting you simply to assist in claiming her deposited assets valued
at US$30M before it gets confiscated by the Netherlands Bank. The Bank has
written me as her consultant and issued a final notice to provide any of her
relatives or have the assets channel to the Netherlands National Treasury as
unclaimed fund within the next 5 working days.

Since there was no relatives or next of kin left in our record, I seek your
consent to present you as her only surviving relative, so that this funds
can be paid to you. Therefore, on receipt of your expression of interest
(EOI),I have agreed that you will inherit 45% of this fund for your help and
sincerity,45% for me while 10% for the refunds of processing expenses and to
pay tax in your country(if any) upon successful confirmation of this funds
in your bank account. Thereafter, all the related legal documents will be
destroyed and we part ways.

My aim is to usher you in legally as her relative (since I have been
unsuccessful in locating her relatives) so that the fruit of her labour will
not be in vain. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable
us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.
Please urgently call if you can handle it.

Best Regards,
Mr. Kofi Anyin
KA Legal Consultancy Services,#20 Farrar Avenue, Accra Ghana.
Tel:+233 246148305

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