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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: David Appi <david_appia@katamail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 22:29:19 +0200
Subject: A business proposal.


RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
# 16 Achimota Road,
Accra Ghana.

Hello Dear,

Compliments Of The Day,

Permit me to introduce myself to you. My name is Mr.David Appia. ,A Top
Management Official of International Commercail Bank,I came to know about
you in
my private email chat for a reliable person/company to handle an important
assingment that will benefit both of us.

Proposition, Eng.Alexander Zubakin from Russia,a Chemical Engineer and an
Oil Merchant here in Ghana,has the sum of $15.6 million in our
Bank.Unfortunately, he died in an accident long time ago.

Efforts had been made by the management of my corporation through the
Embassy in Ghana to contact any of the deceased children but to no avail,as we were
made to understand he had no children and has long divorced from his wife of many
years living him a lonely man.

Given the skeletal information available to the corporation, it has so far
been
impossible to reach any of the relatives. The situation left for the
Management
is to declare the deceased account dormant and revert the Amount to trading
on
behalf of the interest of the corporation. In order to avoid this
development, I
now seek your approval to have you stand as his relative,regarding the farct
that
you have the same last name with him, so that the money would be released to
you,Please do not get me wrong i am only being ambitious and making adequate
use
of the opportunity open to us.

I will tell you what to do and send you a sample of an application letter
that
you will send to the bank in this regards and all the vital informations
that you
will need. I shall Apply for a leave as soon as the funds gets into your
reliable
account to come to your country for possible sharing and investment
opportunity
which you will assist me in doing. May I assure you that this is safe and
risk-free, as we have taken care of all necessary modalities to ensure a
hitch-free movement. i propose that should you be willing to assist and work
with
me in this,you get a very good share of the money at the end,we will talk
about
this and the amount that will be your share when i hear from you.

I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint
me.
As i will only be checking your reply from today.

Best Regards,

Mr.David Appia.

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