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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mark Boland" <markboland776358@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mmboland446@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:57:29 -0700
Subject: Good News

ABN AMRO BANK
101 Moorgate
London, EC2M 6SB
U.K.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr Mark Boland,branch manager of ABN AMRO BANK 101 Moorgate, London
since April, 2001. During a routing check of customer accounts,I noticed
this seemingly dormant account which has not been operated/assessed for
sometime.

Two years later, I made enquiry about same account and discovered that the
owner, Mr. Zemenu Gente, made a Numbered time (Fixed deposit) for 36
calendar months, valued at GBP£30, 000,000.00 (Thirty Million Pounds), I
went ahead to trace him to the address provided and found that he was a
contract employee to Shell Petroleum Development Company(SPDC) in Saudi
Arabia and a national of France, I also learnt he went on holidays to his
country and had died alongside his wife and two daughters in an auto crash
during one of his trips to the country side in France.

I went through all files relating to his financial transactions with my
bank and discovered that he did not make any submission as regards provision
for alternative beneficiary or any WILL indicating the future beneficiary to
anyone. The sum of GBP£30,000,000.00 have been floating as unclaimed since
2001 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives proves abortive.
According to the British law at the expiration of 5 (FIVE) years, the money
will revert to the ownership of the British Government if nobody applies to
claim it and the FIVE years elapses in November, 2006.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years
now, I seek your consent to present you as the Will Beneficiary to the
deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at GBP£30,000,000.00
can be transferred/paid to you. And we will share the funds in the following
percentages, 60% for me and 40% goes to you.

I will prepare all the legal documents that will enable you assume the legal
beneficiary of this funds through formal application to the probate registry
here in the UK. After which the bank will transfer this funds to your
account, and for me to commence with this process I will need you to provide
me with the following information:

1. Full Name
2. Your Telephone Number and Fax Number
3. Your Contact Address
4. Your Age

I await your response to enable us proceed with the transaction.

Best regards

Mark Boland.

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