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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: Ben Bruce <benbruce1950@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:20:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GOOD DAY


Hello Willem Boterman,

As a matter of urgency and confidentiality, I am contacting you regarding a mutual business relationship that would be of great benefit to the both of us at the end of the day. I am highly compelled upon strict recommendation to write you.
Furthermore, I am Mr. Ben Bruce, a personal orderly to Late Chief Mrs. Stella Obasanjo who lost her precious life on the 23rd October 2005 in Spain after a facial surgical opration. See the websites below for more highlights,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4368806.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/obasanjo.obituary/index.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23309257.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4374532.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4385046.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Obasanjo
http://africatoday.eh7.co.uk/cgi-bin/public.cgi?sub=news&actionfiltered=one&cat=76&id=415

Meanwhile, I was infact the delegate that went to Spain with her for the surgical operation before her death. As it stands right now, I need your
assistance regarding a business transaction.Owing to my closeness with the first lady, I came to know alot of her secret dealings. Infact, she deposited a sum of 20 million euros {twenty million euros} in a privately owned security vault in Europe. This fund have been lying there for more than 1 year and 8 months now. While she was alive, I was the person who services all the handling charges regarding to this deposit. As such, I have the original legal documents of the fund deposit.

Now, I want us to claim the fund jointly for ourselves. I cannot because I am in the fore front of the woman's daily activities while she was still alive. I am always with her and if I should front for payment to be made to me, the security vault would definitely raise an eye brow.Instead, I want you to stand in as his business assosciate who is meant to be paid with that money. I would backup the claim with every legal wright because an attorney would be involved but an international attorney based in London.Once they confirm the whole information, they would order for payment. Confirm your honest interest in this deal and let map out modalities on how best to claim the money before the Nigerian government intervens.

Send your telephone and fax numbers including your full address to enable me contact you for further information.

Thanks
Ben Bruce.


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