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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Glotovs Jevgenijs" <g_jevgenijs@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: g_jevgenijs@tiscali.it
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:33:06 -0700
Subject: Dear sir,

Dear sir,

Good day to your today,

I know that this email will come to you as a surprise because you don,t

know me and i don,t know you too.I beleive that when you read this

email,you will understand the importants and urgency in sending you

this email without prior notice.
My name is Glotovs Jevgenijs,i am 20 years old and an ophan.My late

father died in auto crash in Decembar 2005.My late father was kill in a

suspected road accident but the police reported that my late father was

drunk and full of alcohol before his death.For further information on

the death of my father,you can visit this

website:http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/12/22/drunklatvian.shtml
However,my late father was a successful business man who lived in

Hongkong before coming back to my country,Latvia.Before the death of my

father,he told me that he deposited the sum of US$7,000,000.00{Seven

Million US Dollasr} with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of

China{ICBC}in the year 1999.I have contacted the ICBC Bank and they

told me that i am free to come and claim the money as the only son of

my late father.

Now,i am presently living with my unlce who is taking care of my school

and my uncle is very wicked to me.He has seized all my late father,s

properties and sold them away without giving me anything.Now,i don,t

want him to know about the US$7,000,000:00 with the ICBC Bank that is

why i am contacting you to give me and urgently assist so that i can

instruct the ICBC Bank to transfer the money to your account to enable

me come to meet you in your country.

My main reason of contacting you is because i don,t want my uncle to

know about the money because he may claim it and seize the money and i

will not get anything.
I am assuring you that this money belong to my late father and it is

safe,risk free and legal.

Let me know if your ready to help me on this so that i can give you the

detail information of the bank{ICBC},and we reach and agreement on what

will be your share.

I am waiting for your reply.

My regards,
Mr.Glotovs Jevgenijs.

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